Claim: In an impoverished Chilean suburb, a recycling drive flourishes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: La Chureca
text: pick through the garbage which is then sorted and sold to suppliers of recyclable materials. Workers in La Chureca are self- employed individuals and, or families who collect salvageable items such as plastic, aluminum cans, and scrap metals such as copper and iron (Bergin, 2008). These workers are highly organized labour chains. That is, if one person collects glass, the other will clean it, another will crush and recycle it and another will sell it to a collector who will then sell it to different companies (Grisby Vergara, 2008). It is clear that the existing piles of garbage would be

title: Recycling
text: the law. However, in Brazil and Argentina, waste pickers/informal recyclers work alongside the authorities, in fully or semi-funded cooperatives, allowing informal recycling to be legitimized as a paid public sector job. Because the social support of a country is likely to be less than the loss of income to the poor undertaking recycling, there is a greater chance the poor will come in conflict with the large recycling organizations. This means fewer people can decide if certain waste is more economically reusable in its current form rather than being reprocessed. Contrasted to the recycling poor, the efficiency of their recycling

title: Ruby Rumié
text: the displacement that is taking place in this neighborhood. This project explores the value of memory in a place at risk of transformation, the supermarket "El Cartonal de Valparaiso" in Chile. This project looks at the emblematic supermarket that is being threatened by modern supermarkets and at its people. She investigates the richness of the cultures, traditions and trades passed down from one generation to another through photographs and census. She transforms the people of this place into objects, prints them onto industrial packaging and sells them in bulk representing the disappearance of the customs and traditions that are part

title: Hauling (film)
text: 2011. Hauling (film) Hauling is a 2010 documentary film on poor families who work as recyclers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The recycling underworld of Sao Paulo, Brazil is the background to this documentary centering on Claudieni, father to 27 children. In his green VW bus, he visits the Santa Efigenia neighborhood of Sao Paulo to recycle plastic, cardboard, and computers and other electronic equipment. He and his family represent the lower class of people who are discriminated against by other strata of society. The film will have its U.S. West Coast premiere at the San Francisco Green Film Festival in

title: Hauling (film)
text: Hauling (film) Hauling is a 2010 documentary film on poor families who work as recyclers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The recycling underworld of Sao Paulo, Brazil is the background to this documentary centering on Claudieni, father to 27 children. In his green VW bus, he visits the Santa Efigenia neighborhood of Sao Paulo to recycle plastic, cardboard, and computers and other electronic equipment. He and his family represent the lower class of people who are discriminated against by other strata of society. The film will have its U.S. West Coast premiere at the San Francisco Green Film Festival in March

title: Albina Ruiz
text: of Peru, in six versions of the program. They have has organized more than 1,500 waste collectors, creating employment and improving health and living conditions for over 6 million people living in rural and poor urban regions in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and India. Ciudad Saludable also established the organization Peru Waste Innovation, a consulting firm specializing in solid waste management, and Healthy Cities International in New York City, which works to replicate the group's model in other countries. Ruiz and Ciudad Saludable have received a number of honours, including a 1995 fellowship from the Ashoka Foundation, a

title: Electronic waste by country
text: the past decade, solid waste management has recently become a central concern for Chile’s government. In 2009, the Chilean National Environmental Commission identified Chile as “one of the countries with the highest rates of waste generation in Latin America” . They’ve since been working to implement a law, with the help of the National Environment Commission (CONAMA), that would add regulatory power over waste production. In August 2013, the Chilean congress approved a law that established a framework for waste management, EPR and the encouragement of recycling. In 2013, Colombia implemented an EPR law that ultimately focused on enforcing guidelines

title: Zero waste
text: landfill" plants include Subaru, Xerox and Anheuser-Busch. The movement continues to grow among the youth around the world under the organization Zero Waste Youth, which originated in Brazil and has spread to Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the United States, and Russia. The organization multiplies with local volunteer ambassadors who lead zero waste gatherings and events to spread the zero waste message. Milk can be shipped in many forms. One of the traditional forms was reusable returnable glass milk bottles, often home delivered by a milkman. While some of this continues, other options have recently been more common: one-way gable-top paperboard

title: Albina Ruiz
text: services, and to pay for them on time. As of 2014 the group had trained over 300 professionals from Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador, overseeing projects in 20 cities across Peru, employing more than 150 people and providing services to over 3 million residents in Peru. Ruiz was subsequently asked by the Peruvian government to come up with a national plan, and led the creation of the first law in Peru (as well as Latin America) to regulate the activities of waste recyclers. Ruiz and Ciudad Saludable developed a distance education program on waste management, with the Catholic University

title: Landfill Harmonic
text: children and Cola, who all live there. Cola is the luthier, the sweet and humble garbage picker who makes those wonderful instruments for the children. Favio Chavez is the director and heart of the orchestra. His love and commitment to these children is fascinating" Juliana Penaranda-Loftus: "We heard a story about an orchestra that was put together using recycled garbage in April of 2009, it was during our first research trip to Paraguay. In the summer 2010, Alejandra and I came back with director of photography and friend Tim Fabrizio. We arrived to do some initial filming in order to

title: Recycling in Brazil
text: cities. In 1992, private companies from various areas (a.k.a. "heavy polluting companies") established the Brazilian Business Commitment for Recycling (CEMPRE), a nonprofit organization work for the promotion of recycling within the scope of comprehensive waste management as an initiative to build a better environmental image for their associates. CEMPRE tries to increase the community's awareness of recycling and other solid waste issues through publications, technical research, seminars, and databases. The collection of recyclable material in Brazil is largely from waste pickers. Waste picking activities are supported by government. In Brazil, waste picking is now recognized as an occupation, and organized

title: Albina Ruiz
text: waste in Peru when she was a student. When Ruiz started her work in the Cono Norte neighborhood of Lima, 600 metric tonnes of waste were being generated daily, only half of which was collected by the city's collection service. The remainder was left to accumulate in unhygienic heaps, or left along public roads and in vacant lots. This situation existed in other towns throughout Peru, where waste can often be found dumped into rivers, contaminating the drinking water supply. After writing her thesis, Ruiz came up with an idea for a new community-managed system of waste collection that she

title: Marina of the Zabbaleen
text: collectors and recyclers. Moqattam is a toxic shantytown where mountains of trash stand in filthy contrast to the nearby Great Pyramids. Here, the impoverished but industrious locals earn their living by bundling and reselling paper, and raising pigs amidst the rotting refuse. Very few of the youngsters raised ever receive a proper education. The film transforms the gritty landfill Zabbaleen village (known locally as "Garbage City"), one of the very few Coptic Christian communities in a mostly Muslim-populated Cairo, into a beautiful, dreamlike portrait of family, childhood, and spirituality. The film introduces us to the intricate world of seven-year-old Marina,

title: Conserve (NGO)
text: synergy with the local Resident Welfare Associations (RWA), the Ahujas would also collect the waste of several colonies in a park and then segregate it. Wet kitchen waste would be converted into compost while dry refuse like polythene bags would be put aside. That project didn't quite work but led her to the idea of doing something about plastic bags. Over the next two years Ahuja experimented with recycling the bags. She tried weaving them together to create a tarpaulin-like covering for the shacks of slum dwellers. Another time she tried pasting pieces of the polyethylene onto canvas and cardboard.

title: Don't Tell My Mother
text: the Colombian border to investigate illegal gas smuggling. In the countryside of San Felipe, agrarian reform is putting land back into the hands of the people with former sugar cane workers kicking out their former bosses. With a machete and some VHS film tape, workers mark off their land, waiting for it to be recognised by the local mayor's office. High in the Venezuelan Andes, Diego follows two volunteers who bring a mobile library by mule to help families attending school in the mountains. In the Caracas slum of Antimano, Diego plays pick-up basketball, and visits an area where school

title: Environmental inequality in Europe
text: E-901 and east of Highway M 50, Valdemingómez is named after the waste processing, incineration, and dumping facilities which it is adjacent to, and is a site of extreme social marginalization. An estimated 4,500 trucks a day pass through the main road of the settlement daily en route to the dump and recycling facilities, raising concerns over safety, particularly for children. There are no sidewalks, traffic lights, or pedestrian crossings along the road, and several children have been killed by trucks. In 2003, a significant number of Spanish Romani were displaced by the demolition of the Las Barranquilas and El

title: Diocesan College (Teresina)
text: on the internet. Those between kindergarten and fifth grace use the children's library, with its 9,000 works and 11 journals. Zero Waste Project aims at involving all actors on the campus cooperating to limit entirely the amount of waste sent to the landfill, thus promoting environmental awareness, sustainability, waste reduction, and conservation. This is achieved through training and through installation of facilities for compost and recyclable material. Magis House Teresina, located at the school, hosts youth from throughout Brazil for the Spiritual Exercises, training, and prayer evenings, as well as offering volunteer opportunities and celebrations of the faith. Nucleus of

title: Associação dos Catadores do Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho
text: Associação dos Catadores do Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho Associação dos Catadores do Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho (Association of Collectors of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho) is an organization of "pickers" who sort through garbage finding recyclables as a means of survival. The association is led by president Tião Santos, and based in the landfill Jardim Gramacho, outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its members are paid in exchange for the recyclables that they collect, sort, and trade. The Jardim Gramacho landfill has one of the highest rates of recycling due to the entire economy generated by the association.

title: Waste picker
text: have established a more logistical system—they no longer travel by hanging off of trucks, they have obtained a work incentive and uniforms, and lastly they have founded a nursery for 160 children, some of whom worked in the past as cartoneros. However, they still have to advance in designing a social security program that includes all the cartoneros of Buenos Aires. Additionally, they have to raise awareness among residents of the city to separate their trash so that they can collect door to door, without having direct contact with wet materials. India is home to Asia's largest waste picker movement.

title: Electronic waste
text: Ghana (Agbogbloshie), Nigeria, and the Philippines. Most research involving informal e-waste recycling has been done in Guiyu, but there are a handful of studies that describe exposure levels in e-waste workers, the community, and the environment. For example, locals and migrant workers in Delhi, a northern union territory of India, scavenge discarded computer equipment and extract base metals using toxic, unsafe methods. Bangalore, located in southern India, is often referred as the "Silicon Valley of India" and has a growing informal e-waste recycling sector. A studies found that e-waste workers in the slum community had higher levels of V, Cr,