In the fall of 2019 I will not be in Portland at Lewis and Clark. Instead, I will be in Chile doing a semester abroad for my Hispanic Studies major. In anticipation of this I have chosen to partner with Rueben who will also be taking a semester abroad to Chile, and Mackenzie who is interested in the Chile program. Chile is one of the most developed latin american countries. Through its development it now faces a waste issue. Santiago contains nearly 40% of the total population of Chile. Our framing question that we have drafted is, how does a neglect of waste/pollution and resource management intrinsically affect the development of a country? In a situated context we plan to look at the question in the context of Chile and what they are doing to manage solid waste in their country. In addition to literature around Santiago and Chile our group also plans to investigate other countries and what they are doing to mitigate the solid waste produced. According the Kuznets Curve, the environmental issues surrounding countries development may get larger as they industrialize before dropping once again when they lay in greater economic standing. This idea may apply to Chile’s standing and perhaps other countries may provide a projection as to what may happen in Chile. By using Zotero’s chrome ad on, we were able to download any articles we found to our online library. Here all three of us have access to the different literatures and are able to add to the library. By using databases such as Google Scholar, Primo (through Lewis and Clark), Ebsco, and Researchgate, we were able to gather 10 sources relevant to the framing question as well as literature for our situated context as well. When searching we looked for articles that applied to Chile, Municipal Solid Waste, Waste-to-energy, environmental issues in developing countries, or Waste Management. After downloading the resources to Zotero, we tag them. Tagging them allows us to categorize the different articles to clump key themes in multiple different articles together. This also allows us to organize which articles need an annotation and which already do as we gather them and add them to the library. Link to our Zotero Library: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2255341/chile_wasteocene_envs_220/items Our references capture what can be done to combat solid waste in developing countries. This heavily involves dealing with waste in cities and includes resources on the issue in the context of Santiago as well as other articles concerning different cities. One major theme in our literature was waste to energy. This is a way of converting waste into energy once again and is something that may be implemented in Chile as it has been implemented in other areas of the world. The articles dissect the good and the bad surrounding different waste management techniques and which may be beneficial to Chile. One of the issues I found with the possibility of implementing waste to energy is the possibility of air pollution from microplastics. To better understand the issue we may need to research what other possibilities there are for urban waste management that may be more sustainable. One issue I saw was that there isn’t enough recycling including food waste. Perhaps a more effective route would be to use more recyclables and manage food better. It concerns me that a possible solution may involve further pollution.