Informal Waste Recycling in Developing Countries

Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 439-444

  Schluep, Mathias ^a  

^a Universities of Basel and St Gallen   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Best of 2 Worlds; Developing countries; E Waste; Informal sector; Solid waste; Zabbaleen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942122905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396459-5.00029-5     Document Type: Chapter

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