Solid Waste Management and Recycling

112 JAAP BROEKEMA the ban on recruitment of additional personnel, and because of fierce opposition to any restructuring of publi ...

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ISA BAUD CHAPTER 6 REUSE,RECOVERY AND RECYCLING OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE;MODALITIES,COMMODITY CHAINS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVEL ...

116 ISA BAUD 6.2. INTEGRATING SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS Although recovery, trade and recycling of solid waste ma ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 117 This situation is in stark contrast to that in developing countries. Waste minimisation ...

118 ISA BAUD Instead, local governments have supported the creation of community-based micro- and small-scale enterprises for co ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 119 Recovery, trade and recycling activities comprise the next step in the waste manage- me ...

120 ISA BAUD Castricum, 1996; Dhanalakshmi and Iyer, 1999). The result has been that size of material flows, turnover and profit ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 121 ties. An equally important group are the itinerant buyers, who buy materials straight f ...

122 ISA BAUD Their income levels are higher than those of pickers, but remain susceptible to adver- sity. Many small dealers bec ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 123 Social aspects The majority of people working in trade and recycling of waste materials ...

124 ISA BAUD a low of 17 percent women in Costa Rica to a high of 90 percent in Guatemala (Arroyo Moreno et al., 1997/1999: 77). ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 125 and recycling, and an increasing competition among waste collectors for remaining waste ...

126 ISA BAUD have allowed CBOs in Bolivia to participate in the provision of public services by monitoring, control and evaluati ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 127 What these inventories show, is that CBOs operate mainly at the neighbourhood level, wh ...

128 ISA BAUD 6.5. PARTNERSHIPS IN INORGANIC MATERIAL RECOVERY AND RECYCLING: CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? In this s ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 129 chain (waste pickers) having the least legitimacy usually, and the firms using secondar ...

130 ISA BAUD 6.6. LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE CASE STUDIES The next two chapters describe in detail the recovery and recycling commod ...

MODES OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE 131 Incomes earned by street and dump pickers in both locations are below survival wages. T ...