Reclaiming Waste – Presentations
Panel 1 | Informal recyclers: people, integration & access
Chair: Thea Schoeman (DoG/UJ)
- Luyanda Hlatshwayo (ARO) – Introduction to informal recyclers
- Catherina Schenck (UWC) – Informal recyclers in rural and urban spaces
- Suzall Timm (UJ) – Municipal Waste Management Policies and the Informal Recycling Sector: Reflecting on the impact of waste management policies on the informal sector in Cape Town, South Africa
- Khululiwe Bhengu (SERI) – The law on waste pickers and the challenges
Panel 2 | Reclaiming power, forging change
Chair: Melanie Samson (GAES/Wits)
- Eli Kodisang (ARO/WIEGO) – Residents and reclaimers recycling together
- Benedicte Florin (CITERES/ Université de Tours) – From marginalisation to injustice, from injustice to resistance. When waste-pickers resist and claim rights (Cairo – Istanbul – Casablanca – Paris)
Panel 3 | Recyclers, artists, residents & researchers in collaborative projects
- Round table – Results & discussion around a creative workshop organised with visual artists and informal recyclers in Johannesburg. With: Eva Mokoena (ARO), Nkgopoleng Moloi (writer/journalist), Marie Fricout (IFAS-Culture), Eloi Rouillon (IFAS-Recherche)
- Discussion – Co-producing knowledge, benefits and challenges
Panel 4 | Alternative waste management/Alternatives to waste management
Chairs: Emilie Guitard (Prodig/CNRS) – Eloi Rouillon (IFAS-Recherche)
- Serge Kubanza (GAES/Wits) – Some happy, others sad: exploring environmental justice in solid waste management in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo). A cultural theory and systems approach
- Thea Schoeman (DoG/UJ) – An explorative study on household recycling behaviour in the City of Johannesburg
- Saliem Haider (Stellenbosch Municipality) – Municipalities preparing for new organics diversion from landfill – mechanism and cost implications
- Zaynab Sadan (WWF South Africa) – WWF’s approach to the plastic waste challenge: circular economy and cross sector collaboration
Panel 5 | Rethinking ecological practices
Chair: Eloi Rouillon (IFAS-Recherche)
- Melanie Samson (GAES/Wits) – Decolonising recycling
- Emilie Guitard (Prodig/CNRS) – Beyond reclaim? Tensions between economy and ecology in waste reclaiming at the age of Capitalocene
- Molemo Moiloa, Nare Mokgotho (MADEYOULOOK) – Plant socialities: reimagining our ecological relationships