Past Projects
Mapping Waste Governance
Project
This partnership development project seeks to identify, examine and document grassroots social innovations and challenges in waste governance in different geographic regions. We captured multiple narratives and usedinterdisciplinary approaches to formal and informal household waste management.
Arctic Global Changes & Youth
CBRL’s past PhD student Maeva used a participatory video to engage Inuvialuit youth in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories on global changes affecting them.
Bangladesh Baseline Study
Rapid assessment of health and livelihood situations of waste pickers in Dhaka City, Bangladesh: participatory action research to assess the health risks and the livelihood status of waste pickers in Dhaka city in Bangladesh.
COVID-19 & Waste Workers
Waste pickers often work in the streets or at dumps, where they don’t have access to running water, soap or sanitizer. Sometimes they even lack these at home. Most often they do not have masks or gloves to protect themselves during the work. We developed research on the impact of Covid-19 on waste pickers and their resilience.
Roadmap to Zero Plastic Waste
In an effort to reduce the flow of plastic entering the ocean, The Pew Charitable Trusts recently launched a project that aims to develop a global roadmap of the economically and politically viable steps needed to solve this problem.
Mongolia Baseline Study
Informal recyclers in a long winter cold country with fast growing economy: A perspective from Mongolian solid waste management systems. The research seeked to establish baseline data on the state of the livelihoods, recycling activities and health status of informal recyclers in Ulaanbaatar City and in peri-urban Ger areas (informal settlements) in Mongolia.
Sanitation and Waste-borne Hazards & Issues
CAPI Faculty Research Grant: Exploring Sanitation and Waste-borne Hazards and Issues in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh: A Scoping Study. This study explored the sanitary and waste management hazards and issues in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh by using participatory qualitative research methods.
Waste Policies
Exploring Policies and Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Resource Recovery and Recycling Cooperatives: This project developed two case studies on social innovation in waste management in Argentina and Brazil.
Participatory Sustainable Waste
Participatory sustainable waste management (PSWM) presents one option available for dealing safely with non-contaminating waste; in this case, solid recyclable waste, which can be used as a rich resource for income-generation. By collecting recyclable material, community members are able to boost their personal incomes while also contributing to a more healthy and sustainable local environment.