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Waste Pickers

Author	Title	Year	Publisher	Vol No	Vol Page
Furedy, C.	Reflections on some dilemmas concerning waste pickers and waste recovery	1997	Urban Expertise Programme of WASTE
Asian Society for Environmental Protection	Enterprise with Entrails (and the urban wastes)	1988	ASEP Newsletter	4(2)
Birkbeck, C.	Self-Employed Proletarians in an Informal Factory: The Case of Cali's Garbage Dump	1978	World Development	6 (9/10)	1173-1185
Sicular, D.T.	Pockets of peasants in Indonesian Cities: The case of scavengers	1991	World Development	19 (2/3)	137 - 161
Rouse, J. & M. Ali	Waste Pickers in Dhaka	2001	Water, Engineering and Developemtn Centre
Yhdego, M.	Scavenging Solid Wastes in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania	1991	Waste Management and Research	9	259 - 265
McNeil, M. & F.W. Wright	A Scavengers' Cooperative	1989	Biocycle	30 (10)	71 - 72
Bouverie, J.	Recycling in Cairo: a tale of rags to riches	1991	New Scientist	29	52 - 55
Chaturvedi, B.	Public Waste Private Enterprise. An enquiry into the issue of integrating ragpickers into formal solid waste management systems	1999	Warmer Bulletin	66	4-6
Chaturvedi, B.	Ragpickers: the bottom rung in the waste trade ladder		International Plastics Task Force online publication www.ecologycenter.org/ iptf/Ragpickers/indexragpicker.html July 30, 2003
Scavengers Development Program	Scavengers and the Informal Recycling Market in Indonesia	1991	Scavengers Development Program
	Paper Pickers in Bangladesh
Furedy, C.	Survival Strategies of the Urban Poor - Scavenging and Recuperation in Calcutta	1984	GeoJournal	8(2)	129 - 136
Ahsan, R. M., et al.	Waste pickers and recycling of solid waste in Dhaka City	1992	Bangladesh Urban Studies	1(1)	57 - 73
De Souza, H & R. K. Tanwar	Mohinder, Ballu, Om Prakash and the rest	1984	Hindustan Times
Gargan, E.E.	On Meanest of Streets, Salvaging Useful Lives	1992	New York Times
Lambert, B.	On Scavengers' Mountain, a Few Scraps of Hope	1993	New York Times International
	Better counseling programs for scavengers urged	1989	The Jakarta Post
Furedy, C.	Enterprise with Urban Wastes	1988	ASEP Newsletter		18 - 19
	To rise from a tattered existence		JNS
Pattara, D.	It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it	1995	The Bangkok Post	vol. L no. 20	Section Three - Outlook
Anugrah, G.	The Live and Hardships of Junk Collector	1990	Voice of Nature	85	58 - 60
	Cooperatives for regpicker community on cards		Delhi
Spaeth, A./ Stewart, I./ Mai, N.	Bonded to the Garbage Heap/ The future in rubbish/ on garbage mountain	1996/ ?/ 2000	TIME Int./ Plan Int./ Vietnam Shipping Times
Missionaries, V.	The Payatas Environmental Development Programme: microenterprise promotion and involvement in solid waste management in Quezon City	1998	Environment and Urbanization	10 (2)	55 - 68
Furedy, C.	Working with the Waste Pickers: Asian Approaches to Urban Solid Waste Management	1993	Alternatives	19(2)
Huysman, M.	Waste picking as a survival strategy for women in Indian cities		Environment and Urbanization	6(2)	155 - 174
De Cuyper, S.	Applying a participatory action research approach to the production of visual documentation: A case study at the Leuwigdjah dumpsite, Bandung, Indonesia		Student paper	10
North, A.	Waste Not Want Not	1996	The Middle East March
Nguyen H.T.L., et al	Health and Social Needs of waste pickers in Vietnam
Lohani, B.N.	Recycling Potentials of Solid Waste in Asia through organized scavenging		Conservation and Recycling	7 No. 2-4	181 - 190
Medina, M.	Scavenger Cooperatives in Asia and Latin America		Resources, Conservation and Recycling	31	51-69

Waste reduction/ minimization

Author	Title	Year	Publisher	Vol No	Vol Page
Furedy, C.	Waste reduction in cities of developing countries: developing frameworks to guide policies and interventions		UWEP Programme Policy Meeting: Urban Studies Programme
Pratt, R.M. & P.S. Phillips	The role and success of UK waste minimization clubs in the correction of market information failures	2000	Resources Conservation and Recycling	30	201-219
Chung, S.S. & C. S. Poon	A comparison of waste-reduction practices and new environmental paradigm of rural and urban Chinese citizens	2001	J. of Environmental Management	62 (3)	3-19
Wei, M.S. & K.H. Huang	Recycling and reuse of industrial wastes in Taiwan	2001	Waste Management	21	93 - 97
Dimitroff-Regatschnig, H. and H. Schnitzer	A techno-economic approach to link waste minimization technologies with the reduction of corporate environmental costs: effects on the resource and energy efficiency of production	1998	Journal of Cleaner Production	6	213-225
Desroches, P.	Industrial ecology and the rediscovery of inter-firm recycling linkages: historical evidence and policy implications	2002	Industrial and Corporate Change	11(5)	1031 - 1057
Hunt, G.E.	Waste Reduction Techniques and Technologies
Maclaren, V. et al.	Reduction, Reuse and Recycling of Industrial Waste in Jakarta and Vicinity	1995	University Consortium on the Environment	49
UNEP	Waste Reduction: Europe	2000	UNEP, IETC
UNEP	Waste Reduction: Asia	2000	UNEP, IETC