IRS-CESC SIGNED
THE ROLE OF THE INFORMAL RECYCLING SECTOR ON CLOSING THE LOOPS TO SUSTAINABLE CITIES
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Project "IRS-CESC" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Total cost | 146˙591 € |
| EC max contribution | 146˙591 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility) |
| Code Call | H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 |
| Funding Scheme | MSCA-IF-EF-CAR |
| Starting year | 2018 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2018-06-01 to 2020-07-07 |
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| 1 | UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS | UK (LEEDS) | coordinator | 146˙591.00 |
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Project objective
It is widely recognized that waste recycling can reduce both natural resource scarcity and negative environmental impacts of increasing trash production. Expanding the waste recycling is a key to construct Circular Economy (CE) approaches, contributing significantly to the global climate-change mitigation effort, at both local and national scales. Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM), of which waste recycling encompasses one part, is essential on a global scale. Innovative, low-cost methods of waste recycling was developed by vulnerable and marginalized waste pickers , which have led to the creation of an informal waste recycling sector (IRS) which are currently being used in Brazil and others LMIC, and have the potential to be more widely deployed. The IRS has developed work procedures that diverge from those deployed in EU recycling, setting a social technology (ST). This IRS ST is beneficial to ISWM, as it diminishes overall costs and amplifies quantities recovered, besides providing income to a poor, jobless population. This research will validate the possible gains from disseminating the Brazilian IRS ST to other LMIC countries as an ISWM policy and in support to CE strategies, which will involve a comparison of the Brazilian IRS with the EU recycling model; as such, it will consider how to make social and ecological value visible in value-analysis methods. The research will be carried on by the ER, whose ten years’ research has driven to a crossing point of economics, engineering, and environmental disciplines, the same scope of University of Leeds’ Cities theme. These will enable the ER to acquire the new skills and experience to achieve a position of an independent and professionally mature researcher in the field of CE at international level, leading interdisciplinary action-research groups to support international organizations on initiatives to more sustainable and inclusive cities, in direction to a Green Economy.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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| 2019 |
Rutkowski, Jacqueline E. Packaging Recycling Systems on Informal Sector: A Comparative Study published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
Proceedings of ISWA 2019. International Solid Waste Association. 41-42. 07 Oct 2019 | 2020-02-19 |
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