According to Waste for Life, in Argentina, after the …show more content…
WFL is a not-for-profit community that dedicate to advancing poverty-reducing schemes to environmental issue, notably on waste landfill (Baillie, Feinblatt, Thamae, Berrington, 2010). Thereby, all of applicable projects are scrutinised by Waste for Life might be underlying for examination and execution in Buenos …show more content…
The obvious waste problem is the massive amount of garbage dumped in Buenos Aires metropolitan area that cover 400 square meters (Faus, n.d). In detail, Buenos Aires produced 1.4 million tons in 2005, a value that ascended to 1.8 million in 2009 with a 28.5 per cent rising variation (Faus, n.d.). In addition, on account of the relative poverty of Argentina, unemployment is a serious issue in Argentina. As a channel for income, residents who are in plight choose to collect recyclables, however cartoneros do not afford taxes and have no health insurance, warranty of wage, childcare, and occupation security (Magical Urbanism, n.d.). Nonetheless, they still take pride in their daily vocation as waste collection has become fundamental life even if there are a number of citizens who have discrimination and fear to them and regard them as robbers (Pulitzer Centre, 2011). Lack of professional company and sustainable technology is another fatal factor that causes the serious waste problem (Protopapas, 2012). Instead, cartoneros have limited ability of collecting waste so that they can not guarantee the sanitation of Buenos Aires. Thus, small scale of waste collection with low skill management support and a considerable amount of waste generated are the waste problem that Buenos Aires is confronting with. As response to waste problem in Buenos Aires, even in Argentina, the government of