Anna helps her father bring down some shelves and old clothes in the renovation of their flat. They go downstairs and leave this waste in front of the doorway. Amadou, who earns his living as a recycler (the misnamed scrap dealers), walks around 14 kilometres a day to collect around 200 kilos of materials and objects from the city's waste. On that day, he finds the shelving and the collection, as well as some clothes. How could the meeting be facilitated and the needs of Anna and Amadou optimised? Or in other words, can we improve the social welfare of households and waste pickers while improving public services for municipal waste management? Waste management is a major problem for contemporary societies. Regardless of waste management system or economic status, in the vast majority of cities around the world there are groups of people who informally collect materials from urban waste. Our production and consumption patterns generate major ecological, social, administrative, political, budgetary and logistical problems at the metropolitan level, but also within households and just when they go out (1.18 K/inhabitant per day in Barcelona). The aim of this project is to analyse and design in a participatory way, together with households and informal recyclers, a public, feminist and ecological policy for the management of urban waste in Barcelona. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to know who and how the care associated with waste is carried out in and outside the city's households. But not only this, but also the relationships between them and the solutions that can be best adapted. For this reason, a participatory methodology is proposed, both for the design of the project and for the adaptation of the resulting proposals.
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