A Materially Contextualised Account of Waste Pickers’ Marginalisation in Brazil: The Case of ‘Rubbish PET’

Based on the acknowledgment of the materiality of recyclable materials, and therefore of their condition of actants in the recycling market, this paper proposes a materially contextualised account of waste pickers’ marginalisation in Brazil, departing from the extant literature on the topic. Drawing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tatianna Mello Pereira da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2019-06-01
Series:Worldwide Waste
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Online Access:https://www.worldwidewastejournal.com/articles/26