The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

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  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Publication date

  2016-02-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/jiec.12257
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