Waste-recycling as a livelihood in the informal sector. The example of refuse collectors in Cairo
Mountains of refuse on the outskirts of Lima, Lagos, Calcutta or Manila, with ragged children, youths, men and women rummaging through them for usable materials – this is a picture which probably almost everyone has come across in different variations again and again in magazines, books and films.L...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Égypte/Monde arabe
2018
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Mountains of refuse on the outskirts of Lima, Lagos, Calcutta or Manila, with ragged children, youths, men and women rummaging through them for usable materials – this is a picture which probably almost everyone has come across in different variations again and again in magazines, books and films.Like hardly any other picture, this one in particular seems to be especially well-suited to presenting visually and vividly the misery of the people on the outskirts of the metropolises in the Third... |
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