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Bottles on Cars
We've been in BA for six weeks and during each of those weeks we've seen parked cars or pickups with large liquid-filled bottles on their hoods or roofs. At first it was just a curiosity, and we had fun trying to guess what was going on, but eventually the persistence...
Variations
Last week disappeared very quickly in a kaleidoscope of visits to all manner of extraordinary places outside the city. The first visit was to La Vallol where went to visit a ‘Barrios de Pie’ home building project. Except there were no building materials and so no work...
Who owns the waste?
The question of who owns the waste is a constant theme here in Buenos Aires. It is clear that the residents are made aware that they dont own it once its put in the street. The private/public organisations that run the trucks to collect the waste believe they own it,...
Separation and solidarity
Today we went to the Bajo Flores recycling centre in another very poor barrio. The collective here has developed a separation plant - the first of four planned in Buenos Aires, where the members buy waste, delivered to them in trucks (which sometimes arrive at their...
Lost places
Ok so I thought I knew how to use the ‘Guia’ – the incredible bus route map for the whole of the city. I was getting impatient and decided that we had to meet with some more cartoneros. We had contacts and I decided to call them up despite my horrible Spanish. After...
The Presence of Absent Ones
Previously we mentioned the friendly welcome we received from Carlos Levinton and his research group at the University of Buenos Aires. We'll write more about what promises to be a very fruitful collaboration with them in later posts, but want to point back to an...