Building recycling rates through the informal sector.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Waste Management

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.wasman.2008.06.016PMID 18701272
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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