[Geogwaste] Nudging this list!

Mon Jun 6 12:57:21 EDT 2016

Thanks for reviving, Freyja!

Here <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.12257/abstract>'s a
paper I wrote about the informal recycling sector in Bogota, Colombia. "The
efficiency of informality: Quantifying greenhouse gas reductions from
informal recycling in Bogota, Colombia"

Abstract:

The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered
in cities in the Global South, where growing waste production threatens
public and environmental health. Reuse and recycling are widely recognized
to provide broad environmental benefits. Although most industrialized
cities replaced their informal recycling sectors with municipally run
recycling schemes and have had to build their recycling rates anew, most
industrializing cities in the Global South remain centers of recycling and
reuse through the work of informal workers. Bogotá, Colombia, is emblematic
of many cities in the Global South seeking to modernize their city, in part
by formalizing their recycling system. This article asks: What are the
greenhouse gas (GHG) emission implications of this modernization? Using
interviews and observation in combination with life cycle assessment, we
compare GHG emissions resulting from the baseline case (1,200 tonnes per
day [t/d] recycled through informal channels; 5,700 t/d landfilled) to
three alternative scenarios that formalize the recycling sector: the
prohibition of informal recycling; a reduction in informal recycling
coupled with a scale-up of formalized recycling; and the replacement of
informal recycling with formal recycling. We find that the baseline
recycling scenario, dependent on the informal sector only, emits far fewer
GHGs than do all formalization scenarios. Three processes drive the
results, in order of magnitude: informal textile *reuse* (largest GHG
savings); landfilling (largest emitter of GHGs); and metal recycling (GHG
savings). A hybrid model could combine the incentives and efficiency of the
informal system with the better working conditions of the municipal one.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:09 AM, David Evans <david.evans at manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear Freyja, all
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> Many thanks for this  -great idea to start using this list again. And
> thanks indeed for your paper
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> By return, here is a shameless act of self-promotions from me. Two books
> on food waste (one an edited collection, the other a monograph).
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> http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118394313.html
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> http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/food-waste-9780857852342/
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> all the best
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> david
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> *From:* geogwaste-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:
> geogwaste-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] *On Behalf Of *Freyja Knapp
> *Sent:* 03 June 2016 18:02
> *To:* geographers of waste
> *Subject:* [Geogwaste] Nudging this list!
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> Hello geographers of waste -
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> It's been a long time since someone posted here and in an act of shameless
> self-promotion, I am reviving it temporarily to share a new publication
> just out in Environment and Planning A (should you wish to read and you do
> not have access to the journal, I can send a pdf).
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> I hope all are well and I would love to see what other's have been
> publishing too!  The Discard Studies blog has been a great source of new
> pubs, but I'm sure there are others.  Please feel free to share back.
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> Best,
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> Freyja
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> ·         Freyja L Knapp
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> The birth of the flexible mine: Changing geographies of mining and the
> e-waste commodity frontier Environment and Planning
> A 0308518X16652398, first published on May 28, 2016 as
> doi:10.1177/0308518X16652398
> Abstract
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> Mining companies, in recent decades, have been changing how they source
> and refine ores by seeking metal-bearing wastes to be smelted alongside
> “traditional” mining concentrates. I propose the term “flexible mine” to
> describe this expansion of ore supply chains, and I demonstrate how it
> operates through multiple registers of flexibility: spatial, temporal, and
> interpretational. The flexible mine is both a “widening” and a “deepening”
> commodity frontier for the mining industry promising a disarticulation from
> geophysical processes and, by extension, mining country geopolitics. The
> organizational and technical changes associated with mining above-ground
> ores seem to suggest a new phenomenon, wholly different than traditional
> mining and refining. Instead, however, the mining of waste streams blurs
> the boundaries between extraction, production, manufacturing, consumption,
> and disposal. Further, the flexible mine challenges the distinction between
> urban and non, arguing against relying on too-familiar binaries in
> geographic scholarship. I highlight how these registers of flexibility
> address three problems in below-ground mining (geospatial fixity, resource
> scarcity, and environmental effects) and also create new governance
> challenges in regulating extractive industries.
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> --
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> Freyja Knapp, MLA
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> Designated Emphases, Science and Technology Studies
> <http://cstms.berkeley.edu> & Global Metropolitan Studies
> <http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu>
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> Fellow, Berkeley Connect
> <http://www.berkeleyconnect.berkeley.edu/departments/espm>
>
> PhD Candidate, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
> University of California, Berkeley
> email: freyja (at) berkeley (dot) edu
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Sintana E. Vergara, PhD | Postdoctoral Scientist
Silver Lab | Environmental Science, UC Berkeley
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