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Integrating the Informal Sector for Improved Waste Management in Rural Communities

Integrating the Informal Sector for Improved Waste Management in Rural Communities
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Author(s): Veronika Alhanaqtah (Tafila Technical University, Jordan)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Rural Sociology and Community Mobilization for Sustainable Growth
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Qaiser Rafique Yasser (Centre for Rural Economy, Pakistan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7158-2.ch012

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Abstract

The chapter dwells on the theoretical and practical aspects of the informal sector involvement in the system of waste management in rural communities. First, the author discusses peculiar properties of the informal sector involvement such as social, economic, and environmental peculiarities. Second, organizing the informal sector in rural areas is considered. Such issues as the role of community members, organizational structures of community-based organizations, problems of community-based waste management, and directions of its solutions are covered. Third, the author provides summary of experience and policy recommendations for the integration of the informal sector in the waste management system in rural areas. The author concludes that policies facilitating the integration of the informal sector result in increasing recyclable recovery rates and reduction of total waste-management costs. Partnership with the informal recycling sector improves resource efficiency in rural areas and contributes to poverty reduction and environmental improvements.

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