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Table App. 7.10. Percentage of bottles purchased by retail traders by size of unit (last week)

(quantity in Nos)

Size of the

unit (No. of

workers)

Number

of units

Street/Dump

site waste

pickers

Itinerant

buyers

Retail

traders

Others Total

1 – 3

4 – 6

7 – 9

46

8

1

4,595

(22.1)

380

(10.5)

13,780

(66.1)

2,888

(79.8)

350

(1.6)

2,135

(10.2)

350

(9.7)

20,860

(100)

3,618

(100)

Total 55 4,975
(20.3)

16,668

(68.1)

350

(1.4)

2,485

(10.2)

2,4478

(100)

Source: Field Survey