Assessing urban recycling in low- and middle-income countries: Building on modernised mixtures
| Autor: | Arthur P.J. Mol, Anne Scheinberg, Sandra Spies, Michael Simpson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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ecological modernization
Milieubeleid Municipal solid waste WIMEK Waste management Informal sector Natural resource economics media_common.quotation_subject Modernization theory Private sector Livelihood Variety (cybernetics) Environmental Policy Urban Studies Service (economics) Ecological modernization waste management Business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Habitat International, 35(2), 188-198 Habitat International 35 (2011) 2 |
| ISSN: | 0197-3975 |
| Popis: | Recycling and valorisation of waste in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries is often misunderstood. Recycling in these countries represents neither the service of removal, nor an activity of “greening” related to ecological modernisation. Recycling is first of all an economic activity of commodities extraction, upgrading, and trading, and as such it provides a livelihood for millions of persons worldwide. Based on evidence of waste management and recycling activities in six urban centres in low- and middle-income countries, this paper explores the contribution of informal sector recycling to recycling and solid waste management. It interprets the variety of urban recycling systems as “modernised mixtures”: the mixing of formal municipal waste removal systems with informal private sector recycling activities. Context-dependent factors determine how this mixture of formal and informal systems looks, and how effective informal recycling in these urban centres is. This approach to analysing existing recycling can contribute to improvement of solid waste management systems through sustainable and fair recycling. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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