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EMBRACING NOT DISPLACING: INVOLVING THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN IMPROVED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Many hundreds of thousands of poor people in South Asia make a significant, but often unacknowledged, contribution towards handling the subcontinent's solid waste. Changes in legislation and solid waste management systems have the potential to harm, or enhance, the livelihoods of this group. Often changes result in harm. This paper is based on case studies from research with informal-sector waste workers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It considers the nature of their contribution, the problems they face from being excluded from waste work, and the potential for integration into formal solid waste management systems.
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