Role of informal sector recycling in waste management in developing countries

By David C. Wilson, C. Velis, Chris Cheeseman. 2006

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Tightening the loop on the circular economy: Coupled distributed recycling and manufacturing with recyclebot and RepRap 3-D printing (2018, background): “In developing regions this labor is provided by waste pickers, which collect post-consumer plastic in landfills far below poverty-level wages (Hayami, et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2006; Schenck and Blaauw, 2011; Feeley, et al., 2014).”
Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution (2020, background): “In this scenario, annual combined terrestrial and aquatic plastic pollution decreased by 78% [62, 94] relative to BAU in 2040, but only by 40% [31, 48] relative to 2016 pollution rates”
Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions (2021, background): “The informal recycling sector (IRS) manages a significant proportion of plastic wastes; however, their workspace is very unhygienic, hazardous, and associated with related health and social issues [237].”