Dias Alice Libânia S, Lange Lisete Celina, Magalhães Aline Souza
Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
State Foundation for the Environment (FEAM), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Waste Manag Res. 2022 Jul;40(7):892-904. doi: 10.1177/0734242X211061211. Epub 2021 Dec 8.
This article presents an approach to compensate waste pickers in the informal sector of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, via a Payment for Urban Environmental Services (PUES) instrument, called 'Recycling Exchange'. The aim is to evaluate the effects of this instrument on the amount of waste diverted from landfill and reintroduced into the production chain, and to increase recognition of waste pickers' contributions to the state's economy. It was found that the 'Recycling Exchange' met the fundamental objectives of a PUES: the double social and economic benefits of the social inclusion of waste pickers in the execution of the public policy for solid waste management, and inducing (in the case of glass), ensuring and stabilising (plastic and paper) continuity of the activity of selling recyclables in times of wide price fluctuations for these recyclables. The instrument enhanced the provision of this environmental service and the positive externalities associated with recycling.
本文介绍了一种通过名为“回收交易”的城市环境服务付费（PUES）工具，对巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州非正规部门的拾荒者进行补偿的方法。目的是评估该工具对从垃圾填埋场转移并重新引入生产链的垃圾量的影响，并提高对拾荒者对该州经济贡献的认可度。研究发现，“回收交易”实现了城市环境服务付费的基本目标：在执行固体废弃物管理公共政策过程中，将拾荒者纳入社会带来的双重社会和经济效益，以及在可回收物价格大幅波动时期，促使（玻璃）、确保并稳定（塑料和纸张）可回收物销售活动的持续性。该工具增强了这种环境服务的提供以及与回收相关的积极外部效应。
