IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jresou/v6y2017i4p70-d122435.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Waste Municipal Service and Informal Recycling Sector in Fast-Growing Asian Cities: Co-Existence, Opposition or Integration?

Author

Listed:
  • Rémi De Bercegol

    (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8586 PRODIG, 2 Rue Valette, 75005 Paris, France)

  • Jérémie Cavé

    (2 Ter Rue des Puits Creuses, 31000 Toulouse, France)

  • Arch Nguyen Thai Huyen

    (Faculty of Urban and Rural Planning, Hanoi Architectural University, Km10 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi 100803, Vietnam)

Abstract

Despite being generally poorly recognized by public authorities, informal recycling remains nevertheless a major component in the waste sector, which questions the legitimacy of the official waste arrangements. A look at the current transformation in Hanoi (Vietnam), Delhi (India) and Surabaya (Indonesia) allows us to understand the socio-technical aspects of infrastructural choices in the management of waste generated in fast-growing Asian cities. The three cases present similar traditional recycling practices yet contrasted (non-) regulation within their waste policies. From the co-existence of a municipal waste management service with a traditional informal recycling sector, to an opposition between both, there is also a possibility of making use of the existing local practices to achieve a more sustainable system.

Suggested Citation

  • Rémi De Bercegol & Jérémie Cavé & Arch Nguyen Thai Huyen, 2017. "Waste Municipal Service and Informal Recycling Sector in Fast-Growing Asian Cities: Co-Existence, Opposition or Integration?," Resources, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jresou:v:6:y:2017:i:4:p:70-:d:122435
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/6/4/70/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/6/4/70/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Martin Medina, 2005. "Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries," Working Papers id:14, eSocialSciences.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rémi DE BERCEGOL & Jérémie CAVE & Arch NGUYEN THAI HUYEN, 2018. "Informal Recycling vs municipal Waste Service in Asian cities: Opposition or Integration?," Working Paper 07c154f8-d6a3-4480-907b-1, Agence française de développement.
    2. Navarrete-Hernández, Pablo & Navarrete-Hernandez, Nicolas, 2018. "Unleashing waste-pickers potential: supporting recycling cooperatives in Santiago de Chile," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 85730, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Jutta Gutberlet & Bruno de Oliveira Jayme, 2010. "The Story of My Face : How Environmental Stewards Perceive Stigmatization (Re)produced By Discourse," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 2(11), pages 1-15, October.
    4. World Bank, 2010. "Uganda - Environmental Sanitation : Addressing Institutional and Financial Challenges," World Bank Publications - Reports 2882, The World Bank Group.
    5. Beenish Malik & Novel Lyndon & Yew Wong Chin, 2020. "Health Status and Illness Experiences of Refugee Scavengers in Pakistan," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(1), pages 21582440209, March.
    6. Carrie L Mitchell, 2009. "Trading Trash in the Transition: Economic Restructuring, Urban Spatial Transformation, and the Boom and Bust of Hanoi's Informal Waste Trade," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 41(11), pages 2633-2650, November.
    7. Francie Lund & Florencia Casanova-Dorotan, 2017. "Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City," Working Papers id:12288, eSocialSciences.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jresou:v:6:y:2017:i:4:p:70-:d:122435. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.