Index
Accra 113
Aleluia 88
Ali, M. 7, 21, 45, 142, 156
Aninha 63, 90–91
Argentina 81, 126
ASMARE 81, 83
Associacion Cooperativa de Recicladores de
Bogotá 139
Aterro Bandeirantes 36
Australia 24, 26, 61
Sydney 26
Research Council 61
University of Newcastle 61
Austria 31
Baeder, Angela 6, 13, 99
Banco Nacional de Habitação 54
Bangladesh 126
Baud, I. 84, 140–141
Beall, J. 33, 82, 94
Berthier, H.C. 21, 33
binners 1, 3, 15, 17, 81, 153
biodegradability 21, 25, 31
Bolsa familia programme 50, 90
escola 91
Brazil
Água Espraiada 58
Belo Horizonte 81, 83
Billings watershed 34–35, 57
Lake 35, 56–57, 101
Curitiba 83
Diadema 14, 26, 83, 109, 135–138
Embu 83
Guarapiranga Lake 35, 56
Itú 83
Londrina 83, 84
Maça do Amor 59
Mata Virgem 58
Pedra sobre Pedra 12, 26, 45, 59,
72–81, 92, 99–107, 156
Associação Pedra sobre Pedra 59, 85
Rua Javali 61
Pinheiros river 57
Porto Alegre 10, 81, 83, 108–109
Recife 81
Ribeirão Pires 14, 28, 130, 144, 155
Rio de Janeiro 55, 69, 81, 95, 122,
São Paulo 6, 20, 26, 34, 38–39, 42–44,
48–54, 81,123, 128, 135, 144, 147,
150–152, 162, 166
Greater Metropolitan Area 54
Avenida Paulista 54
Santo André 12, 100–101, 103,
114–118, 120–129
Tietê river 57
Projeto Tietê 66
Uberlândia 25
Central 25
Brazilian plastic packaging association 31
the Britannia Community Services Centre
26
the Brundtland Report 2, 16, 47, 61
Cairo 142
Canada 23, 35–39, 80, 91–94, 98, 167
BC 25
Hornby Island 77, 83
Hornby Waste Management Centre
83
Saltspring Island 77
Mayne Island 77
Vancouver 26
Canadian International Development
Agency 89
Capital Regional District of Victoria 25
Cardozo, Fábio 13
Cartoneros 80, 139
Catadores 1, 6–7, 38, 80, 104–106, 116
CAVO 36
CEMPRE 32, 81, 83, 87
162
Recovering Resources – Recycling Citizenship
Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André
100
Chaskin 80
China 24
Guangzhou 24
Hong Kong 24
The City Act 65–66
Clean and Green Madras City Project 84
Coleta Seletiva Solidária 37
Colombia 139
Bogotá 8, 139, 154
co-management 10, 127–129, 142
commodity chains 2, 29
community 3, 48, 75–76
developement 11, 75–76
community-based enterprises 7, 93,
126–128
Conselho Nacional de Economia Solidária
126
co-operatives 4, 7–8, 14, 29, 33–34, 68, 77,
100, 152–154
Coopcicla 101, 111
CooperFenix 156
Coop Cidade Limpa 101
CooperPires 130–135, 140
Corrêa, Ivan 99, 101
Credite Rurale 126
Criança no Lixo Nunca Mais 81
cradle to cradle principle 2
environmental
education 7, 27–29, 37, 52, 65–68, 78
health 4, 100–101, 105, 122, 140–141,
152
justice 15, 28, 151,
environmentally responsible consumption 2
Estação de Coleta Seletiva Bosque 105
Estamira 108
extended polluter responsibility 2
da Costa, Vilson Rodrigues 99, 101
Dar Es Salaam 29
Denmark 100
Departamento de Limpeza Urbana 87
development 15
participatory 9–10, 48, 126
sustainable 21, 46–47, 94, 100, 143
Health
occupational 6, 12, 99, 100–110
Hepatitis-B 100, 112
human
security 20, 39, 77–79, 157
Human Development Index 48
Earth Summit 94
ECLAC 50
ecological footprint 2
Ecuador
Quito 84
Ecourbis 36
Eletropaulo 59
EMAE 90
empowerment 9, 75–76, 78–79
endotoxins 110–111
ENTERPA 36
favelas 5, 6, 34, 55–57
Federação de Asseio 116
Fórum Nacional de Economia 126
Fórum Nacional Lixo e Cidadania 81
Forum Recicla São Paulo 77, 88–89, 133
Freire, Paulo 68, 93
Fundacentro 112, 114
game theory 127
Germany 2, 4, 24, 27, 31
Stuttgart 24
globalization 25, 47, 154
governance 11, 76, 123–125
good governance 52, 94
Gram Negative Bacteria 111
Gramacho 108
Grameen Bank 126
green dot program 2
the Guarapiranga Project 66
India 25, 27
Calcutta 21
Chennai 84
Delhi 115
IMF 5
informal economy 6, 21, 136
informal recyclers 3, 6, 21, 152–154
Instituto Akatu pelo Consumo Consciente 34
Instituto Polis 37
Inter-American Development Bank 66
International Congress of the national
recyclers’ movement 155
Index
International Human Dimensions Program 20
International Labor Organization 4
Italy 31, 77, 126
Emilia Romana 77
Jamaica 139
Japan 24
Japanese International Cooperation Agency
24
Sr. José 134, 174
Kondratieff cycles 5
Kuznet boom and bust waves 5
Latin American Congress of Recyclers 108
Latin American 1st World conference of
informal recyclers 8
Leptospirosis 63, 112
Lima Declaration 125
LIMPURB 36
livelihood assessment 45
Local Agenda 21 93, 127
Loga Logistica Ambiental S.A. 36
marginalization 10, 30, 126, 147
Marins, Ana Maria 13, 132
Medina, M. 8, 32, 139, 141
mercantile capitalism 22
micro-credit 126, 135
middlemen 6, 82, 135, 139
modernization theory 47
Morro da Providência 55
Movimento dos Sem Terra 77
Movimento dos Sem Teto 55, 77
Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Teto 55
Movimento nacional dos catadores de
Materiais Recicláveis (MNCR) 7,
77, 115, 156
Movimiento Nacional de Empresas
Recuperadas 126
Movimiento Nacional de Fábricas
Recuperadas por los Trabajadores 126
National Bureau of Statistics 55
National Recycling Program 139
neo-colonialism 147
Neo-patrimonialism 47
New Zealand 24
163
OECD 3
Onyx 4, 32
oppression 29–30, 147
orçamento participativo (participatory
budgeting) 10, 94
organic dust toxic syndrome 111
Organização Social de Interesse Público 136
packaging
waste 2, 20–21, 31, 35
Pacto Ambiental 136
participatory
democracy 8
resource management 121
Participatory Sustainable Waste
Management Project 89, 135
Partido Verde de Minas Gerais 31
Pedro León Trabuchi 139
Peru 53
Philippines 124
political ecology 11, 28–29
Ponte Pequena 36
poverty 5, 50
reduction 1, 12–14, 48, 50, 141
product life-cycle 4
Programa de Geração de Trabalho e Renda
101
PROSANEAR 62, 66, 67
public private partnerships 21, 128
quality of life 76–78, 88, 94, 100, 114
recicladores 81
Reciprocidade Agradável 101
Redigestor 85, 91
Renewable Energy Commercialisation
Program 26
resource
conservation 1–3, 26
depletion 14, 25
management 10–12, 52, 149–150
mobilization theory 91
Recycling programmes 3, 86, 134, 141–142
community-based 75–76
SABESP 61, 66
Santo Amaro 36
Secretaria do Meio Ambiente 61
164
Recovering Resources – Recycling Citizenship
Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento
Econômico e Geração de Renda 101
Secretaria Nacional de Economia Solidária
126
Selva de Pedra 63, 90
SEMASA 101
sense of place 30, 46, 66–67
Silveira, Jocemar 85
Singer, Paul 8, 34, 126–127, 153
social
capital 46, 49, 52, 64–67, 75–76, 80,
140, 150–153
cohesion 10, 14, 46, 49, 67, 80, 83, 92
economy 8, 124–127, 153
exclusion 4, 5, 28, 51–52, 64, 79
justice 13, 52, 125, 148, 151
movements 9, 29, 77
The Social Panorama of Latin America
Report 50
Sociedade Amigo do Balneario Mar Paulista
61
solidarity economy 8, 34
de Soto, F 6, 52–53
South Africa
Johannesburg 84
squatter settlements 6, 53, 55
Structuration Theory 79
sustainability 3, 47
sustainable
communities 3, 45
livelihoods approach 49–50
Switzerland 30
Takahashi, Ruth 13, 75, 88
UK 26
Community Recycling Network UK 77
União da Luta pelos Cortiços 55
União Nacional por Moradia Popular 55
United Nations 19
Millennium Declaration 48
Millennium Development Goals 48
UNDP 20
UNEP 3
UNFPA 23
UNICEF 81
United Nation habitat 5
United States 80
City of Seattle 47
Florida 108
New York City 33
Seattle 26
urban sprawl 19, 58
Uruguay 126
Vergueiro 36
Vida Limpa 136–138, 153
voluntary simplicity 2, 27, 38
waste
incineration 7, 14, 27
privatization 4, 32
World Health Organization 100
World Social Forum 127
Young, Iris 29, 31, 48, 51, 68, 142, 147, 151
Zabaleen 142