Enabling the informal recycling sector to prevent plastic pollution and deliver an inclusive circular economy

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Recycling by the informal sector provides a rapid, inexpensive solution to plastic pollution, whilst supporting livelihoods via their inclusion and empowerment. This will have greatest benefit environment if interventions are targeted at types of pollution that most damaging from an ecological wider risk perspective. Interventions should target three aspects pollution: reducing barriers collection, improving revenue materials recycler remuneration, increasing quality materials. Done well, these increase collection rate, reduce plastics, help millions people escape poverty. They present scalable international global challenge; likely only viable widespread lack solid waste services infrastructure across low- middle-income countries. • stop pollution. Targeting items perspective supports harm minimization. Reducing plastics recovery better support sector. Such

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Science & Policy

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1462-9011', '1873-6416']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.008