This work is a critique to the stigmatisation of trash as something we should not live close together with. Due to this derogative conceptualisation of waste together with the inherent characteristics of landfills, Mexico City’s government implemented a “far and out” policy locating the final disposal areas distant and out from the city. Then, the proposal is the opposite approach: a local waste management system. So waste that usually ends kilometers away is handled in the community where it was produced in order to lengthen the life cycle of materials. The project is developed in Xochimilco for the challenges regarding the door-to-door collection of waste in this municipality. The local system focuses in the sorting process; being the mos...
MEDINA, Martin. Serving the unserved: informal refuse collection in Mexico. in Waste Management Rese...
This dissertation examines the practice of garbage management and its construction as a set of envir...
Open dumping, open burning and burying of municipal solid waste (MSW) can be the cause environmental...
This work is a critique to the stigmatisation of trash as something we should not live close togethe...
Social and spatial segregation structures in Latin America are perceived as processes for the select...
A more careful consideration of food waste is needed for planning the urban environment. The researc...
The city of Xalapa, like many Mexican cities, does not count with any sort of official recycling pro...
Abstract It is estimated that up to 2 percent of the population in Third World countries survives on...
In Mexico, the accelerated and unplanned growth of population causes the increment in informal facil...
TRAVISS, Thomas. Talking trash: informal "cooperatives" dominate Mexico City's waste management syst...
Integrated solid waste management (ISWM) is the strategy for waste policy in Mexico. It entails a co...
Municipal waste consist of a variety of items that are everyday discarded by the population. They ar...
This paper approaches the way local governments manage garbage from the point of view of the model "...
Waste has been concealed and misallocated as a consequence of urban growth. While many residents of ...
FRYKMAN, Carina. The Power of Waste. A Study of Socio-Political Relations in Mexico City’s Waste Man...
MEDINA, Martin. Serving the unserved: informal refuse collection in Mexico. in Waste Management Rese...
This dissertation examines the practice of garbage management and its construction as a set of envir...
Open dumping, open burning and burying of municipal solid waste (MSW) can be the cause environmental...
This work is a critique to the stigmatisation of trash as something we should not live close togethe...
Social and spatial segregation structures in Latin America are perceived as processes for the select...
A more careful consideration of food waste is needed for planning the urban environment. The researc...
The city of Xalapa, like many Mexican cities, does not count with any sort of official recycling pro...
Abstract It is estimated that up to 2 percent of the population in Third World countries survives on...
In Mexico, the accelerated and unplanned growth of population causes the increment in informal facil...
TRAVISS, Thomas. Talking trash: informal "cooperatives" dominate Mexico City's waste management syst...
Integrated solid waste management (ISWM) is the strategy for waste policy in Mexico. It entails a co...
Municipal waste consist of a variety of items that are everyday discarded by the population. They ar...
This paper approaches the way local governments manage garbage from the point of view of the model "...
Waste has been concealed and misallocated as a consequence of urban growth. While many residents of ...
FRYKMAN, Carina. The Power of Waste. A Study of Socio-Political Relations in Mexico City’s Waste Man...
MEDINA, Martin. Serving the unserved: informal refuse collection in Mexico. in Waste Management Rese...
This dissertation examines the practice of garbage management and its construction as a set of envir...
Open dumping, open burning and burying of municipal solid waste (MSW) can be the cause environmental...