Enhancing Transparency in Waste Management Through Use of Participatory Methods

Enhancing transparency in waste management through participatory methods involves engaging community members in decision-making processes, monitoring, and evaluation. This approach ensures accountability, promotes sustainable practices, and fosters trust between waste management authorities and the public.

1. ENHANCING TRANSPARENCY IN
WASTE MANAGEMENT THROUGH
USE OF PARTICIPATORY METHODS
A S M LUTFOR RAHMAN RABBI
CECILIE BRO
FREJ SLOT ARNFRED
ISABELLA REJNHOLT DA TRINDADE
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ECOCLAREZA AT COOPERATIVA DE CATADORES RECICLA
MAÍS BRASIL

2. AGENDA
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PROBLEM STATEMENT AND CONCLUSION
FEEDBACK ON OUR CONTRIBUTION
THE BRASILIAN CONTRIBUTION
OUR FEEDBACK ON THEIR PERSONAS
THE EGALITARIAN PROJECT WORK
ECOCLAREZA’S FUNCTION
OVERVIEW OF OUR PROJECT
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3. PROBLEM STATEMENT
How can the inclusion of marginalised waste pickers at Cooperativa Catadores Recicla Maís Brasil
be ensured in the design of the EcoClareza system while also addressing issues of trust between
the waste pickers and their management?

4. CONCLUSION
Feminist HCI gives a critical vocabulary: Assessment and Articulation
EcoClareza: Based on Ethnography and Participatory Design
Gap in Accessible Information: Gap between internal and external priorities of
the Cooperative
Integrating Waste Pickers’ Perspectives: Why aren't they included more
already?
Supporting Transparency and Empowerment: Inclusion of waste pickers
valuable perspectives

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Collaboration
We have shared
findings, results and
deliverables with
eachother.
January
Egalitarian SDG
Challenge Waste
Summit Brasília 2024.
Monthly
Project Mangement
Office (PMO) meetings
with all participants in
the Egalitarian spring
semester projects.
Bi-weekly
Meetings with the
product owner of the
Integrated Supply
Chain Mangement (a
Brazilian student).
Final PMO
Final PMO meeting
with everyone involved
in the spring semester
of the Egalitarian
project present their
projects to eachother.
OVERVIEW OF OUR PROJECT

6. FEEDBACK ON OUR CONTRIBUTION
We have received positive feedback from the Brazilian students and professors involved in the
Egalitarian project.
It is difficult for us to predict how they are going to continue with the use of our deliverables.
Prioritising recommendations for design over specific requirements gave them room to interpret
and apply our knowledge to their designs.

7. THE BRAZILIAN CONTRIBUTION
Our close collaborators in the Integrated Supply Chain Managemetn System group (ISCMS) find it
challenging to work on systems directed towards the wastepickers rather than the management.
For the two groups involved in creating the systems, they have both focused on the management
systems this semester, and then they have only briefly looked at the waste pickers systems.
The system they have created so far (for the management) is text heavy, which will make it difficult
for them to create an optimal waste picker portal within that system.

8. OUR FEEDBACK ON THEIR PERSONAS
The Brasilian students had a hard time creating personas.
Because of the limited access, they couldn’t find a way to collect data to base the
personas on.
The Brasilian students ended up using our personas.
We found new ways to collect data about the waste pickers by doing the design
cards.
Their persona:
Our persona:

9. THE EGALITARIAN PROJECT WORK
Brazilian Waste Pickers: waste pickers as professionals
Challenges:
Informal in nature: Tangible artifacts, tacit knowledge and established communication styles
Mismatch in Expectations:
Disbelief in UnB projects; seen as unfeasible and unhelpful
"The team was concerned about drafting efficient and effective proposals due to Recicla Mais
Cooperative workers' disbelief in UnB projects, as past proposals were seen as unfeasible and
unhelpful." - As noted by Brazilian students and the Recicla Mais Cooperative administration,

10. THE EGALITARIAN PROJECT WORK
Importance of Local Context:
understand local challenges and operational realities, avoiding harmful universalising approaches
Recognize workers operate on their own terms
Prioritise social missions alongside data-driven solutions
Learning from Waste Pickers: emphasise elucidation phase of requirements
Establish best practices for ethnography and reproducible PD-methods for future projects
What are we leaving behind?
Tangible deliverables that illustrates what ethnography and participatory methods can produce
Ethically oriented recommendations with intentions of avoiding what Bardzell claims as harmful

11. ECOCLAREZA’ FUNCTION

12. ECOCLAREZA’ FUNCTION
WEIGHT SENSOR
COMPUTER
SYSTEM
DASHBOARD
Measure the
weight of the
trash bags
Real-time data
with customised
user-defined
interval
Saves the weight
sensor data and
sends it to the
main system.
Run necessary
programs or any
algorithm needed.
Prepare data for
the dashboard
(e.g., on scale of
30 wrt. user-
defined avg. price)
Provides other
relevant data to
dashboard.
Displays the real-
time progress
bars with
respective waste
pickers photo
Display the
progress bar
from the previous
day in shadow
color for the
respective waste
pickers.
Update the
progress bars
with user-defined
time interval.
Display the
notices written
by user like
managers.

13. Today March 20
Ronaldo Luiza Marcia Belinda
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Overview of sorted waste
EcoClareza
Metal
Glass
Cardboard
Plastic

14. THANK YOU!