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Dear Anne,

I would like to confirm our interest in participating in the research project about e-waste from a Brazilian context. We have already been in touch with different actors involved in some way with issues of e-waste, including government, private initiatives, academic institutions and informal sector initiatives. In this way, we hope to construct a study with a heterogeneous scope. Please follow the outline below for further information about the areas of focus we intent to include for this research project:


E-waste is a question about public health: what are the impacts of the manipulation of e-waste to one’s health? What prevention are there? And what preventions are taken? What are the adequate forms to treat/store e-waste materials? What are considered the most problematic materials?


Brazilian legislation: where does Brazilian legislation stand? What is the law? What projects are in place? Which groups are lobbying for and against? What are the real initiatives? Agenda 21, Conama, and etc..


Research Questionnaire, focus groups and interviews to be conducted with the following actors, businesses in this sector, stores, factories, cooperatives, a catadores de rua, carrinheiros, metarecicleiros,1 government, etc.. One of the main points that we want to capture in this questionnaire is the opinion of those to be interviewed, about Brazil receiving e-waste. In other words, if this is considered a good or bad thing? Is it worth working for this? Do we have a government, which is competent enough to handle this? We want to investigate this further, as well as many other questions.


Visits and investigations to sanitary deposits: What disposal procedures are taken? What happens with this garbage?


Visit federal government recycling factories: interviews, mapping, photos, and anything else that we can use to develop our research.