Building recycling rates through the informal sector.
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Summary
This paper shows that recycling rates already achieved by the informal sector can be quite high, typically in the range from 20% to 50%; often up to half of this is in the form of clean, source separated materials collected directly from households and businesses by itinerant waste buyers.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2009-02-01
- Cited by
- 354
- References
- 8
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2010856246
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:167266
Keywords
Informal sector, Business, Revenue, Solid waste management, Municipal solid waste
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