Johansson Nils
Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Waste Manag Res. 2025 Jul;43(7):1135-1145. doi: 10.1177/0734242X241297574. Epub 2024 Nov 28.
This article examines a specific subtype of informal waste picking: deposit picking. Despite its global prevalence, waste picking has neither been extensively studied in the Nordic countries nor in the context of a deposit-refund system. Through interviews and text analyses of waste pickers in Stockholm, Sweden, similarities and differences between deposit picking and traditional waste picking are uncovered. For example, unlike other waste materials, the income from deposits is stable. The focus on beverage containers and the ability of reverse vending machines to sort the containers, lowers the knowledge threshold to begin the activity. The lightweight nature of beverage containers makes collection mobile, and deposit pickers often carry only a bag. The deposit pickers are mainly older, poor and male. Similar to traditional waste pickers, deposit pickers are central to the formal waste system, but their work is invisible, and foreign deposit pickers, in particular, are stigmatized. The dual invisibility of their labour and contributions, coupled with their independence from formal social systems, highlights the need for internal organization and representation within the formal systems.
押金回收。尽管押金回收在全球普遍存在，但在北欧国家以及在押金返还制度的背景下，拾荒行为都尚未得到广泛研究。通过对瑞典斯德哥尔摩拾荒者的访谈和文本分析，揭示了押金回收与传统拾荒之间的异同。例如，与其他废品不同，押金收入稳定。对饮料容器的关注以及逆向自动售货机对容器进行分类的能力，降低了开展此项活动的知识门槛。饮料容器重量轻，便于携带，押金回收者通常只背一个袋子。押金回收者主要是年龄较大、贫困的男性。与传统拾荒者类似，押金回收者在正规垃圾系统中至关重要，但他们的工作却不为人所见，尤其是外国押金回收者还会受到污名化。他们的劳动和贡献既不为人所见，又独立于正规社会系统，这凸显了在正规系统内部进行组织和代表的必要性。
