Participants
Directing Committee
Jutta
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Nídia
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Ângela
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Fabio
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Ruth
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Anna Maria
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Solange
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Jutta Gutberlet is the Canadian director of the project. She did her undergraduate studies in Biology at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) and her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Then she worked for the United Nations (Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and in Ecuador) and for a non-governmental research institute (CEDEC) in São Paulo. She has worked for the University of Tübingen/Germany and the University of Newcastle/Australia. Currently, she is Associate Professor at the 
Nídia graduated with a geography degree from Universidade de São Paulo in 1962, obtained her master's in Geography from Universidade de São Paulo in 1978, and her Ph.d. in Education from Universidade de São Paulo in 1994. Nídia has experience in education, acting on the following subjects: environmental education, environmental studies, education in geography, and the interdisciplinary nature of geography.
Ângela Martins Baeder is a Biologist with a graduate studies in Biology and Education (MA) and teaches in Environmental Studies. Currently she is enrolled in the PhD program at the Faculty of Education at the University of São Paulo, USP.
Fabio Luiz Cardozo is the founder and coordinator of Forum Recicla São Paulo, a social movement created in 2000 that agglomerates more than 30 recycling cooperatives and associations, as well as some members from NGOs and universities. Its mandate is to strengthen the informal and organized recycling movement in Sao Paulo.
Maria Ruth Freitas Takahashi is a member of Rede Mulher De Educação, an NGO that works on gender oriented issues throughout Brazil. Ruth has long term experiences on social development issues in poor communities.
Ana Maria Marins is the Field Coordinator for the project. She is a Biologist and completed her graduate studies at the Universidade Católica de Santos (Unisantos). She also has a Diploma in Environmental Management. Now Ana works as an independent professional with NGOs and the government.
Solange Dias de Araujo is the project administrative manager. She completed her undergraduate studies in Biology at FSA.
Bruno Jayme
Bruno is currently working towards his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies (Education and Cultural Geography) where he combine arts-based methodologies and socio-cultural theories to trouble discrimination suffered by recyclers. Bruno will, collaboratively with recyclers, create and monitor a mobile art exhibit to explore whether art facilitates dialogue between the recyclers, the public, and São Paulo policymakers. Specifically, by working with recyclers to create art pieces made from recyclable material, his objectives are to: (a) monitor individual and community empowerment as an outcome of art creation and mobile art exhibitions; (b) evaluate the effectiveness of art in alleviating discrimination experienced by recyclers; and, (c) determine whether art can be used as a communication tool to enhance participation in agenda-setting process. His research will respond to the following: Can art decrease discrimination experienced by recyclers, and contribute to, or enhance, their participation in setting the public agenda?
Crystal Tremblay
Crystal Tremblay completed a Master of Arts in the Department of Geography from the University of Victoria in 2007. Crystal has been working with the PSWM project since 2005 in various capacities. Her contributions include video productions (including 'Beyond Gramacho' and 'Participatory Video Practitioner's Toolkit' co-produced in 2010), co-editing the projects newsletters and helping to facilitate capacity-building activities in Brazil and Canada. Her PhD research is focused on the use of Participatory Video as a tool for public policy and empowerment for recycling cooperatives participating in the PSWM project.
Clécio Varjão
Clécio Machado Varjão did his undergraduate studies in Information Systems at Fundação Santo André, Brazil. He is currently enrolled in the Masters Program in Computer Science. He is funded through the PSWM project to develop a collective commercialization web system for the organized recycling groups (co-ops and associations) involved in the project in Brazil. Clécio is also working for the community-based research laboratory, where he provides computer related tasks and contributes to the Global Waste Database project.
Megan King
Megan joined the CBRL as an undergraduate in the work-study program, in 2008 when she contributed, through data collection and entry, to the Global Waste Database. She is now a second year graduate student, working towards her MA in Geography with a PSWM research project. Funded by the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada/International Development Research Centre's Canada-Latin America and Caribbean Research Exchange Grant, Megan is currently completing her fieldwork in Ribeirão Pires, São Paulo, Brazil, which began in November 2010. She works with the recyclers of the Cooperpires recycling cooperative, using a variety of research methods including participant observation, interviews, and questionnaires, and a life-cycle assessment. The data will inform a case study of cooperative recycling and examine its contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This study will also enquire into the possibility for recycling cooperatives to engage in carbon credit market. Click here to see Megan's CAG poster!
Eric Binion
Eric Binion has completed his field work in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There he researched the self-reported health, injuries, and risks of informal recycling. He currently assists in the knowledge mobilization aspect of the project.
Frances Ankenman
Frances Ankenman joined the CBRL in September 2011 through the work-study program. She contributes to the PSWM project as a qualitative research assistant, focusing on knowledge mobilization. She is currently a third-year BA student at UVic, majoring in Geography with a concentration in Resource Management and minoring in Human Dimensions of Climate Change. Frances is interested in exploring solid waste as a resource and as a tool to benefit communities and the environment. She hopes to pursue research analyzing links between climate change and resource management.
Sarah Marshall
Sarah joined the CBRL through the work-study program in September 2011. She is currently working towards her BA in Geography with a minor in Environmental Studies. Her contributions to the PSWM project have been primarily through knowledge mobilization. Sarah was excited to join the CBRL as she is interested in community-oriented and participatory research as tools to help empower communities.
Participating Recycling Co-operatives
Associação Pacto Ambiental - Diadema
Cooperlimpa – Diadema
Cooperma – Mauá
Cooperpires – Ribeirão Pires
Coopcicla – Santo André
Associação Refazendo – São Bernardo de Campo
Raio de Luz – São Bernardo de Campo
Sempre Verde – São Paulo/Zona Sul
Coopercral – São Paulo/Zona Sul
Coopercose – São Paulo/Zona Oeste
Fênix – Ágape – São Paulo/Zona Leste
Participating local governments
Consórcio Municipal do ABC
Prefeitura Municipal de Ribeirão Pires
Prefeitura Municipal de Diadema
Prefeitura Municipal de Mauá
Prefeitura de Santo André
Other collaborators
Araci Mussolino, Instituto GEA
Sergio Marques, Grupo Sta. Luzia
FUNDACENTRO
… among others.
