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ClearFrom Waste Pickers to Producers: An Inclusive Circular Economy Solution through Development of Cooperatives in Waste Management
This paper presented an inclusive circular economy framework centered on waste picker cooperatives in developing countries, arguing that integrating informal sector workers into formal plastic recycling systems improves both waste management outcomes and social equity, with case studies from Latin America and Africa illustrating successful models.
Urban Solid Waste Management: Evaluation of Practices and Contributions to Sustainable Development
This study evaluated solid waste management practices in a Brazilian municipality, assessing collection efficiency, recycling rates, and landfill operations against sustainability goals. It identified key institutional and infrastructural barriers preventing progress toward sustainable waste management.
Municipal solid waste management challenges in developing regions: A comprehensive review and future perspectives for Asia and Africa
Researchers reviewed a decade of municipal solid waste challenges in developing countries across Asia and Africa, finding that inadequate infrastructure, cultural barriers, and poor policy enforcement are driving waste crises. The study recommends source-level sorting, improved landfill practices, and stronger community involvement rather than focusing solely on recycling.
Solid waste management in the context of the waste hierarchy and circular economy frameworks: An international critical review
This review evaluates global solid waste management practices through the lens of the waste hierarchy (reduce, reuse, recycle) and circular economy principles. The authors found that while high-income countries have advanced waste systems, low- and middle-income nations face major challenges including inadequate infrastructure and plastic pollution. The study highlights how poorly managed plastic waste contributes to environmental contamination, including the generation of microplastics.
Solid Waste Management in Rural Communities of Developing Countries: An Overview of Challenges and Opportunities
This review examines the challenges of managing solid waste in rural communities of developing countries, where lack of infrastructure and knowledge often leads to dumping and uncontrolled burning. Researchers identified opportunities for turning waste into resources through composting, recycling, and community-based management programs. The study emphasizes that proper waste management in rural areas is essential for reducing environmental pollution, including plastic contamination, and protecting public health.
Waste Management in the Global South: an Inquiry on the Patterns of Plastic and Waste Material Flows in Colombo, Sri Lanka
This dissertation analyzed plastic and waste material flows in Colombo, Sri Lanka, examining the social dynamics, governance structures, and ecological impacts of waste management in a developing city context. The research highlights how plastic waste management challenges in the Global South are deeply intertwined with urbanization, inequality, and colonial legacies.
Global Plastic Pollution and Informal Waste Pickers
This review examines how plastic pollution disproportionately affects communities in the Global South, where plastic consumption has risen sharply while waste management infrastructure remains underfunded or nonexistent. The study highlights the role of approximately 20 million informal waste workers who already recover and recycle significant quantities of plastic but often work under hazardous conditions without recognition or support. Evidence indicates that integrating these informal workers into formal waste management systems could be an effective strategy for reducing plastic pollution while improving livelihoods.
Approaches for a Circular Economy in European Union and Its Effects in Third Countries: Promoting a Values-based Dialogue Between the EU and Latin America?
This study examines the tension between the European Union's circular economy strategies and its practice of exporting plastic waste to third countries, arguing through qualitative bibliographical research that the EU must align its external plastic waste policies with its founding values in order to serve as a credible leader in global plastics treaty negotiations.
Contamination by plastics and microplastics: (re)knowing the lived reality.
This Brazilian literature review examines the environmental impact of plastics and microplastics across different pollution scenarios, discussing the history of plastic production and consumption, relevant environmental legislation, and the importance of recycling in addressing plastic contamination.
Safely recovering value from plastic waste in the Global South: Opportunities and challenges for circular economy and plastic pollution mitigation
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for recovering value from plastic waste in the Global South through recycling and chemical conversion processes, highlighting significant risks to human health if inadequate environmental safeguards are in place. Plastic waste infrastructure expansion in developing countries must prioritize worker and community safety alongside pollution reduction goals.
A Política Nacional De Resíduos Sólidos: Gerenciamento De Resíduos E Classificação
This paper reviews Brazil's National Solid Waste Policy, which established a framework for classifying and managing different categories of waste. The law requires environmentally sound disposal and promotes recycling, composting, and shared responsibility across the waste production chain.
Plastic management to reduce environmental pollution
This study designed a community-based plastic management program in a Mexican municipality to reduce PET pollution by exchanging collected plastics for basic food goods, linking environmental goals with local economic incentives.
A critical review on sustainable hazardous waste management strategies: a step towards a circular economy
Researchers review global strategies for managing hazardous industrial and household waste — including chemicals, heavy metals, and electronic waste — with a focus on aligning disposal practices with circular economy principles that minimize environmental and health harm. The review finds that prevention, recycling, and advanced treatment technologies must work together, guided by stronger international policy frameworks.
Integrated Recycling and The Impact of Plastic Waste from Industry and Agriculture on The Environment
This review examined the environmental impacts of plastic waste from industrial and agricultural sources and assessed integrated recycling strategies for reducing those impacts. The paper discussed how plastic waste prevention, collection, and recycling can minimize pollution and climate contributions from the growing global plastic waste stream.
Challenges to reducing post-consumer plastic rejects from the MSW selective collection at two MRFs in São Paulo city, Brazil
Researchers characterized the composition of recyclable material streams at two automated material recovery facilities in São Paulo and found that while paper, metals, PET, and HDPE achieved recovery yields above 38–89%, plastics like polystyrene and vinyl were poorly sorted due to labeling gaps, household behavior, and equipment limitations.
Analysis of Brazilian plastic waste management in the global context and case study of the City of Vitória, Espírito Santo
This review analyzes Brazil's plastic waste management and finds that the country recycles only about 1% of its plastic waste, far behind nations with comparable economic development. Researchers documented extensive microplastic pollution in waterways, atmosphere, and mangrove ecosystems around the city of Vitoria. The study highlights that without significant improvements to waste collection and recycling infrastructure, microplastic contamination will continue to grow in Brazilian environments.
Developing a circular economy from plastic waste and identifying microplastics in domestic water supplies in Ho Chi Minh City and the Southeastern provinces
This study explored pathways for developing circular economy systems from plastic waste streams, including identification and quantification of microplastics at different stages of the waste cycle as a prerequisite for effective material recovery.
Examining Latin America’s Transition to a Circular Economy for Plastics
This policy analysis found that Latin American countries are generating increasing amounts of plastic waste while their waste management and recycling infrastructure remains inadequate, though the region is beginning to adopt circular economy strategies through national roadmaps and legislation. The study is relevant to microplastic pollution because poor waste management is a primary driver of plastic breakdown into microplastics in rivers and coastal waters.
An Overview of Plastic Waste Recycling in the Urban Areas of Java Island in Indonesia
This overview examines plastic waste recycling management in urban areas across Java Island, Indonesia, one of the highest plastic-polluting regions in the world. It identifies barriers to improved recycling rates and proposes strategies to shift toward more sustainable production and consumption patterns.
Understanding the socioeconomic determinants of marine plastic pollution: Evaluating policy effectiveness and mitigation strategies in the Global South.
Researchers synthesized qualitative and quantitative evidence on marine plastic pollution in the Global South, identifying rapid urbanization, inadequate waste infrastructure, and weak governance as primary drivers, and recommending integrated strategies combining single-use plastic bans, extended producer responsibility, regional cooperation, and circular economy incentives.
Design and study of Solid Waste Management in Ranchi, Jharkhand
This paper examines solid waste management challenges in Ranchi, India, linking poor plastic and municipal waste handling to public health problems. It is a regional policy and urban planning study, not a primary research paper on microplastics.
Sustentabilidade: Materiais Plásticos, O Great Pacific Garbage Patch E Propostas Sustentáveis No Contexto Da Globalização Contemporânea
This Brazilian Portuguese legal and policy review analyzes international and domestic sustainability proposals around plastic pollution, including the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and European single-use plastic regulations. The author argues that no effective global plastic elimination program is possible without coordinated non-state institutional frameworks and enforcement mechanisms.
Plastic waste management: case study of tower market, Hyderabad
Researchers surveyed plastic waste management practices at a market in Hyderabad, India, finding that 50–60% of residents dispose of plastic in open spaces without proper management, and proposed short-, mid-, and long-term interventions including bio-based plastics and reduced packaging to address this gap.
Study of Household Scale Waste Management in Batu City, Indonesia(Implementation of Batu Mayor's Regulation on Household Waste Management Policy)
This study evaluated household waste management policy implementation in Batu City, Indonesia, finding gaps between policy goals and actual household practices. Effective household-level waste management is essential for reducing environmental pollution, including plastic waste that contributes to microplastic contamination.