Municipal solid waste recycling and the significance of informal sector in urban China

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 896-907

  Linzner, Roland ^a   Salhofer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

China; Informal sector; municipal solid waste; recycling; significance; urban; waste collection; waste generation

Indexed keywords

RECYCLING; SOURCE SEPARATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; INFORMAL SECTOR; SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN; WASTE COLLECTION; WASTE GENERATION;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

CAPITAL CITY; INFORMAL SECTOR; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RECYCLING; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHINA; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MIGRANT WORKER; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TRIANGULATION; UNCERTAINTY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; ANALYSIS; CITY; EMPLOYMENT; PROCEDURES; SOLID WASTE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CHINA;

SOLID WASTE;

CHINA; CITIES; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84907216545     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14543555     Document Type: Article

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