Department of Sociology, Fort Lewis College, USA; Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball - QUIT, Institut d'Estudis del Treball - IET, Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Sociology, Universistat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Government and Public Policies. Unversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Waste Manag. 2021 Jul 15;131:483-490. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.07.006. Epub 2021 Jul 14.
The present study draws from data collected with informal recyclers in the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain. The purpose of the investigation is to determine the relationship between the formal and informal recycling sectors in Catalonia and determine how each of their activities impacts the other. From the case study in the city of Granollers, it was determined that from the spring of 2018 to the fall of 2019, the informal recyclers had the potential to collect roughly 44% of the cardboard in their geographical area, helping to meet the environmental goals of the region, but receiving no recognition for their work nor acknowledgement regarding their role in the waste management system. This investigation also analyzed the economic relationship between the formal and informal systems, and the effects that international events, such as China's National Sword policy, had on that relationship. It was determined that the embeddedness of waste systems and global waste markets affect not only the formal system, but their relationship with the informal system as well.
本研究的数据来源于西班牙东北部加泰罗尼亚自治区的非正规回收者。调查的目的是确定加泰罗尼亚正规和非正规回收部门之间的关系，并确定它们各自的活动如何相互影响。通过对格兰诺列尔斯市的案例研究，我们确定从 2018 年春季到 2019 年秋季，非正规回收者有可能收集他们所在地区约 44%的纸板，这有助于实现该地区的环境目标，但他们的工作没有得到认可，也没有得到承认在废物管理系统中的作用。本研究还分析了正规和非正规系统之间的经济关系，以及中国“国家剑”政策等国际事件对这种关系的影响。研究结果表明，废物系统和全球废物市场的嵌入性不仅影响正规系统，还影响其与非正规系统的关系。
