Scavenger cooperatives in Asia and Latin America

By M. Medina. 2000

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Role of informal sector recycling in waste management in developing countries (2006, background): “It provides employment and a livelihood for impoverished, marginalised and vulnerable individuals or social groups (Medina, 2000).”
• The Multilevel Cycle of Anthropogenic Zinc (2005, methodology): “Our supposition is that this material is recycled in ways not captured by the data that are available (e.g., Medina 2000).”
• An Introduction to Sustainable Development (2014, background): “An estimated 20,000 people in Calcutta, 12,000 in Manila, and 15,000 in Mexico City, for example, live on municipal dumps (Medina, 2000).”
• The stability and profitability of the informal WEEE collector in developing countries: A case study of China (2016, background): “It is estimated that as much as 2% of he population in some developing countries survives by scavengng (Medina, 2000), and as many as 18 million people are engaged n waste recovery in China (National Development and Reform ommission, 2014; China Ministry of Commerce, 2014).”