• Informal waste collection is the activity of "manually sorting and extracting various recyclable and reusable materials from mixed waste, at legal and...
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    Garden waste dumping Biomass Biomass to liquid Biomass heating system Informal waste collection Williams, I.D.; Kelly, J. (2003). "Green waste collection and...
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    significant role in the acknowledgment and inclusion of the informal sector (waste pickers) into the waste management process for the first time. India generates...
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    include rag picker, reclaimer, informal resource recoverer, binner, recycler, poacher, salvager, scavenger, and waste picker; in Spanish cartonero, chatarrero...
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    through material recovery, or disposal are also considered e-waste. Informal processing of e-waste in developing countries can lead to adverse human health...
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  • illegal informal recycling processes, without the necessary safety precautions legally required by Chinese government regulations. Processing e-waste in this...
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    nearly 75% of electronic waste, with the contribution of individual household being only 16%. E-waste is a popular, informal name for electronic products...
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    Waste Atlas Waste by country Waste collection Waste converter Waste management Waste minimisation Waste-to-energy plant Doron, Assa. (2018). Waste of a NationĀ :...
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    dropped to 39%; which further dropped to 32% by 2010. List of slums Informal waste collection Banlieue (Term used for the deprived neighbourhoods in the edges...
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    and waste collection). Due to the informal nature of occupancy, the state will typically be unable to extract rent or land taxes. The term "informal housing"...
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    Recycling (redirect from Pre-consumer waste)
    and Argentina, waste pickers/informal recyclers work alongside the authorities, in fully or semi-funded cooperatives, allowing informal recycling to be...
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    government privatized waste collection in the city. Before the introduction of this program there was a long standing informal waste collection system carried...
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  • waste, or the management of waste dumping sites and landfills. Informal garbage collectors are a key element of Cairo's waste management system. The workers'...
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    Zabbaleen (category Waste collection)
    that the Zabbaleen found amongst the waste that they collected. This Zabbaleen community later emerged as the informal garbage collectors and recyclers of...
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  • development index. Global Waste Maps is a set of global maps that visualise waste management indicators such as waste collection coverage, waste generation per capita...
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    is a large and controlled outdoor fire, used either for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration. The earliest recorded...
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    collected by local waste collection schemes such as bulky waste are also accepted. In the United Kingdom, civic amenity sites are informally called "tips"...
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    An informal economy (informal sector or grey economy) is the part of any economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Although...
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    effectively 100% of the residual wastes remaining after readily saleable items and materials had been removed by the informal sector in the streets ('rag-and-bone...
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    Sanitation worker (category Waste collection)
    sectors (e.g., solid waste and healthcare facility management). Also, sanitation workers in developing countries are often informally employed which makes...
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    Karung guni (category Waste collection)
    the heavy sacks on their backs as they walked their rounds to do the collection. Today, most of them use a hand truck instead. Karung guni either walk...
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    Curb mining (category Waste collection)
    many jurisdictions, ownership of domestic waste changes once it is placed into a container for collection. It is thus illegal (although rarely enforced)...
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    Scrap (redirect from Metal waste)
    industry includes both formal organizations and a wide range of informal roles such as waste pickers who help sorting through scrap. Scrap metal originates...
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  • door-to-door service, 26% through collection points, and 43% through informal street waste pickers. A major victory for waste collection was between 2006 and 2008...
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    toxic wastes TSIP, Toxic Sites Identification Program, " identifies active and abandoned hazardous waste sites resulting from both formal and informal industrial...
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    regulate the level of water in the canal prism, waste weirs, informal overflows, and spillways were used. Waste weirs removed the surges of water from storms...
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    Rag-and-bone man (category Waste collection)
    attributed to ragpicking, considering the lack of solid-waste management and under-developed waste collection and recycling culture in that country. Charles Dickens'...
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    Illegal dumping (category Waste management)
    fly tipping (UK), is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as curbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump...
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    waste collection, job creation, and partnerships with informal waste management. It created the Mbalit project, the first household waste collection programme...
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  • Junk man (category Waste collection)
    and Son, a television program centered on a junk man and his son Tosher Waste picker "The Junk Man" Carl-Sandburg.com (accessed June 20, 2007) "The Significance...
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