Studies and reports

• RESULTS project: Temporary Bottle Depot summer 2016
• MEMOIR-Coop-Les-Valoristes_Project-PMGMR_CMM_2015-2020
• RESULTS project: Temporary Bottle Depot summer 2015: présentation powerpoint des principaux résultats (pdf / 20 pages).
• REPORT spécial collection_3_of NON-REFUNDABLE beverage containers 2015

• RESULTS pilot project: Temporary Bottle Depot summer 2014 : (pdf / 11 pages).
•  La récupération informelle des contenants de boissons consignés à Montréal, François Bordeleau – student- researcher of Groupe interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’emploi, la pauvreté et la protection sociale (GIREPS), University of Montréal, in collaboration with Pierre Batellier.
  • Complete Study  (pdf / 35 pages)
  • Highlights of the study (pdf / 2 pages)
  • PPT Most important findings of the study (pdf / 8 pages)

Major studies by social organizations and academic research institutions on the issue of informal recycling and valoristes / “Binners’

• Canada and Sweden: INCLUSIVE WASTE GOVERN ANCE AND GRASSROOTS INNOVAT IONS FOR SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECO NOMIC CHANGE: REPORT ON FIRST RESEARCH OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT RECYCLING NETWORKS & WASTE GOVERNANCE (2019) – Adalberto M. M. de Azevedo, Sebastián Carenzo, Charles Goodluck, Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael O. Oloko, Jessica Pérez Reynosa, Patrik Zapata and María José Zapata Campos

• USA : Informal Employment Making a Living in Calgary (2010) – Externalities from Recycling Laws: Evidence from Crime Rates bevin Ashenmiller, Occidental College

• Calgary (Alberta) : Informal Employment: Making a living in Calgary (September 2010) – Final Report by Cori Bender – Submitted to the Calgary Homeless Foundation.

• St-John (Terre-Neuve et Labrador) :  Recycling from the Margins: Informal Recycling Networks in St. John’s as Social Interactions (April 2012), Michelle Porter, report funded by The Leslie Harris Centre for Regional Policy and Development And the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board

• Vancouver (Colombie-Britannique) : United We can: Resource recovery, place and social enterprise (2010) Crystal Tremblay, Jutta Gutberlet, Ana Maria Peredo in Resources, Conservation and Recycling 54 (2010) 422–428

• Victoria (Colombie-Britannique) : Who are our informal recyclers? An inquiry to uncover crisis and potential in Victoria, Canada (2009),Jutta Gutberlet; Crystal Tremblay; Emma Taylor; Nandakumar Divakarannair

• Copenhagen, Denmark (2007): Bottle Collectors: An ”invisible minority” in Kongens Have , Laura Hanson , Lea Olsen, Humanity in Action

GOVERNMENTAL studies and reports of private consultants on the recycling of beverage containers:

• Québec (Canada): EtudeContBoissons-RQ-2005:  La gestion des contenants de boissons au Québec – Évaluation du marché et analyse des options de récupération (septembre 2005); RECYC-QUEBEC
• Québec (Canada): Gestion-contenants-boissons2008: MISE EN MARCHÉ ET RÉCUPÉRATION DES CONTENANTS DE BOISSONS AU QUÉBEC (janvier 2008); RECYC-QUÉBEC
• Alberta ( Canada) :Returning To Work ( December 2011) Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D., and Clarissa Morawski.Understanding the Domestic Jobs Impacts from and Different Methods of Recycling Beverage Containers
• Alberta ( Canada) : Who Pays What ( August 2012) An analysis of beverage Container Collection and Costs in Canada
• Germany ,   Reuse and Recycling Systems for Selected Beverage Packaging from a Sustainability Perspective ( June 2011) PricewaterhouseCoopers,Dr. Patrick Albrecht, Jens Brodersen, Dieter W. Horst, Miriam Scherf An analysis of the ecological, economic and social impacts of reuse and recycling systems and approaches to solutions for further development.