How inclusive is inclusive recycling? Recyclers’ perspectives on a cross-sector partnership in Santiago de Chile

Michela Giovannini and Benjamin Huybrechts
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Michela Giovannini: UC - Universidade de Coimbra = University of Coimbra [Portugal]
Benjamin Huybrechts: EM - EMLyon Business School, HEC Liège

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Abstract: Inclusive recycling is the inspiring slogan of a project relying on a cross-sector (public–private–civil society) partnership implemented in Latin America with the objective to improve the socioeconomic conditions of recyclers. Through a qualitative study in Santiago de Chile, this paper seeks to understand how inclusive inclusive recycling is, by assessing how organised recyclers perceive the goals, the process, and the outcomes of this project. The main findings converge in observing a general low inclusion of recyclers, but they also enable to decompose the notion of inclusion into three dimensions: "inclusive goals" refers to the extent to which the goals of the recyclers are taken into account when designing the collaboration project; "inclusive process" refers to the extent to which recyclers are involved in the process of implementing the project; and "inclusive outcomes" refers to the capacity of the partnership to acknowledge the achievements of recyclers organisations before (and during) the project and to take into account the ongoing local dynamics when evaluating the project. These findings contribute to better understand the position and challenges of recyclers in this type of partnership and more generally to shed light on the potential power imbalance in waste management cross-sector partnerships.

Keywords: partnership; informal recyclers; Chile; waste management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12-01
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Published in Local Environment, 2017, 22 (12), 1497-1509 p. ⟨10.1080/13549839.2017.1363727⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2017.1363727

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