CBRL News

News

23 - 24 July 2009

Location: Consórcio Intermunicipal do Grande ABC [Intermunicipal consortium of the ABC Region of São Paulo]

Address: Rua Ramiro Colleoni, 05 – Centro, Santo André – SP.

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME HERE [Portuguese only]

June 2009

Binners seek shop for cart repairs

Judith Lavoie reports for the Times Colonist on the potential for a downtown bike and cart repair shop where local binners could fix the equipment that enables them to make a living from discarded bottles and cans.

February 2009

Preço do alumínio afeta bolso de catadores (Portuguese | portugués)

São Paulo-based news organization, ABCD Maior, reports on the impact that the global economic recession is having on informal recyclers in Brazil: dropping aluminium prices have led to decreased remuneration for recyclers.

January 2009

Risorse, Economia e Ambiente

CBRL work on participatory sustainable waste management is featured on the on-line blog of the Italian association ASPO-Italia.

Reframing a society: A participatory video production with recyclers

CBRL members Jutta Gutberlet and Bruno Jayme collaborate in this on-line article about the participatory video project in Brazil.

November 2008

Pilot MOTHERS project assists "binners" in Victoria

Nikki Ewanyshyn reports on the pilot project to provide collection carts and tents to binners in Victoria.

Waste Pickers without Frontiers: First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers Bogota, Colombia 1-4 March 2008

The Conference was a joint effort of waste picker and support organizations from different countries. It brought together two planned events: the Third Latin American Conference of Waste Pickers, organized by the Latin American Network of Waste Pickers and supported by the AVINA Foundation, and the First World Conference of Waste Pickers, initiated by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). The report is a record of the Conference proceedings in summary form. For more information, photographs and full presentations from the
Conference visit the Conference web site at www.recicladores.net or www.wiego.org.

October 2008

Resourceful dumpster divers are important part of our city's fabric
Derek Moscato, The Province, October 26, 2008

Derek Mascato reports on Richard Florida's analysis of the binning community of Vancouver and their role as members of the "creative class". The research carried out by CBRL member Crystal Tremblay with the binners in Vancouver is featured.

June 2008

PSWM Project Director Jutta Gutberlet talks to ABCD News (Portuguese | português)

A professora Jutta Gutberlet, da Universidade de Victoria, no Canadá, percorreu vários países do mundo para concluir que o modelo de coleta e reciclagem de lixo em Diadema é o mais avançado que conheceu em suas andanças. Mesmo no Brasil, a professora conheceu outras experiências de tratamento do lixo, que considera aquém dos programas aplicados na cidade do ABCD. Jutta conclui que o modelo diademense se destaca porque os catadores são remunerados, em um sistema que considera justo e inclusivo.
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May 2008

CBRL Participants at CuExpo
Thanks to the Office of Community-based Research at UVic and the funding provided by IDRC we were able to bring one recycler from Brazil to participate in the Community-University Exposition of 2008 (CUExpo 2008). Luzia Honorato was selected by the recyclers who participate in the PSWM project in Brazil. The Community-based research Laboratory organized two sessions during this conference.
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March 2008

The 1st International Recyclers Conference in Bogota, Columbia
In early March 2008 the 3rd Latin American and the 1st World Conference of recyclers was hosted by the National Association of Recyclers of Colombia (ANR) in Bogotá. CBRL director Dr Jutta Gutberlet and PSWM project committee member Fabio Luiz Cardozo were on-hand to represent the work of the Brazilian-Canadian partnership.
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February 2008

UVic – PRIA Partnership and UVic’s team visit to Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, India
Last year, the University of Victoria (UVic) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for higher education for social and human development with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), New Delhi, India. The CBRL, with its extensive research experience on recycling and waste management in both Brazil and Canada, was eager to extend its support to PRIA. Dr Nanda Kumar, a member of the CBRL, was assigned to be part of the Canadian team visiting PRIA in Delhi. He traveled with Rosaline Canessa (Geography department) and Maeve Lydon (Office of the Community-based Research) in PRIA’s project areas, conducting interviews with local governing body members and communities to get a first hand experience of PRIA’s initiatives and also to understand the issues and limitations.
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