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fashion that they could do this efficiently, were not accepted by international donors,
who feared the necessity of dealing with small-scale cooperatives in a larger SWM
project. National and local authorities in India could well introduce such measures to
ensure that a maximum amount of waste is recovered before being removed to the
dumpsite. This is even more important in the context of new dumpsites likely to be
located well away from Hyderabad, increasing transportation costs substantially.
Finally, the lack of recognition is a lost opportunity to integrate an existing completely
private market recovery system that is financially and economically viable, into the
citywide system. Recognizing existing efforts offers the opportunity to introduce new,
locally adapted low-cost technologies into the system to reduce the current health
hazards run by the people working in waste recovery, and to increase the productivity
of their efforts.