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Dr. Gutberlet carried out her undergraduate studies degree in Biology at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) and her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Dr. Gutberlet then worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and in Ecuador, and for the non-governmental research institute Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea (CEDEC) in São Paulo. She has worked for the University of Tübingen/Germany and the University of Newcastle/Australia. Currently, she is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, at the University of Victoria. Her current research interests are on sustainable livelihoods and community development with a specific focus on participation, co-management and poverty reduction strategies. She is involved in research on inclusive waste management and participatory natural resource management. She teaches in the fields of Social and Development Geography. Jutta Gutberlet is the current director of the CBRL and principal investigator of several research projects.
Bruno Jayme is a biologist and environmentalist from Brazil. His research explores human interactions during science outdoors activities. More specifically, through interaction analysis and discourse analysis, he investigates how discourse features such as utterances and different kinds of gestures mediate interaction of individuals during cooperative work in the context of environmental activities. After finishing his Master of Arts in the environmental and education departments, Bruno joined the community-based research laboratory as the project administrator for the participatory sustainable waste management project, where he ensures the implementation of an ongoing monitoring system for the project. Additionally, he mediates administrative efficiency both in the implementation of the activities (budget planning) and in reporting obligations towards the partners and the funding agency. He also liaises between the partner members of the management team and establishes and implements a communication plan between partners, contributing to the smooth development of the project. 
Nanda Kumar D successfully defended his Ph.D in Geography in November 2007 at the University of Victoria. His research focus is on sustainable livelihoods and poverty, and he is actively involved in community-based research both in
India and Canada. Prior to his Ph.D, he was a senior
lecturer in Geography at University College, Kerala, India. He is a
member of the Board, Protsahan, an NGO based in India, involved in
action research for and with the coastal poor. He has undertaken a
national level project to map the extent of Coastal Regulation Zone
violations for the National Fishworkers Forum, India. Here at UVic, he
has worked closely with purchase department and facilities management
of the University to set up the Community-based Research Lab. In
addition, he is involved in collection, compilation and updating data
and relevant information for the CIDA funded project, "Participatory
sustainable waste management". He is also part of the team of Aquaculture Research Group (ARG) at the University of Victoria. 
Crystal Tremblay completed a Master of Arts in the Department of Geography from the University of Victoria in 2007. Her research explored the socio-economic and environmental significance of informal resource recovery (Binning) in Vancouver, BC. Crystal is also involved in the Participatory Sustainable Waste Management Project (PSWM) with the Community-Based Research Laboratory (CBRL). Her contributions include communications and multimedia design, video production, literature research, and compiling information for the Global Waste Database. She has previously worked on projects in Montreal related to sustainable transportation, and environmental education and in New Zealand and Hawaii on community sustainable living (2004) and heritage seed saving (2006). Crystal will continue her work with the CBRL exploring the use of participatory video for capacity building and empowerment in community waste management initiatives in Brazil and Canada.
Clécio Machado Varjão did his undergraduate studies in Information Systems at Fundação Santo André, Brazil. He is currently enrolled in the Masters Program in Computer Science. He is funded through the PSWM project to develop a collective commercialization web system for the organized recycling groups (co-ops and associations) involved in the project in Brazil. Clécio is also working for the Community Based Research Lab (CBRL), where he provides computer related tasks and contributes to the Global Waste Database project.
Julian Yates graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in geography from the University of Manchester in the UK. Since then he has gained valuable experience with the international development organisation Practical Action (Rugby, UK) and as a consultant to the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Brighton, UK). Julian is currently undertaking his master of arts degree in geography, the focus of which is upon the social and political aspects of implementing an integrated system of participatory urban agriculture and waste management. Julian helps to develop content for the PSWM website and assists in the general co-ordination of CBRL activities.