Regenerative Energie
The presence in waste of materials with positive value represents a potential source of livelihood for the urban poor. This was true for medieval cities and rapidly industrialising cities of Europe and North America in the nineteenth century and also applies to developing countries today (Wilson, 2007). It has been estimated that up to 2% of the urban population in Asia and Latin America depend on waste picking for all or part of their livelihood (Medina, 2000).
Many developing country cities aspire to modern waste management systems, which are associated with relatively high recycling rates of clean, source separated materials. Most already have informal sector recycling systems, which are driven solely by the revenues derived from selling recovered materials, even though they are saving the formal sector money by reducing waste quantities. There is clear potential for ‘win-win’ co-operation between the formal and informal sectors, as providing support to the informal sector, to build recycling rates and to address some of the social issues, could reduce the overall costs of waste management for the formal sector. This paper shows that recycling rates already achieved by the informal sector can be quite high, typically in the range from 20-50%; often up to half of this is in the form of clean, source separated materials collected directly from households and businesses by itinerant waste buyers (IWBs). Four country case studies provide a number of lessons on how this solid foundation could be used to build high recycling rates of clean materials.
| Copyright: | © IWWG International Waste Working Group |
| Quelle: | Specialized Session C (Oktober 2007) |
| Seiten: | 12 |
| Preis: | € 12,00 |
| Autor: | David C. Wilson A.O. Araba K. Chinwah Prof. Christopher Robert Cheeseman |
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- ein Rechtsvergleich
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Verschachtelte Gesetzgebung unter politischer Ungewissheit