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The socio-economic differences between landfill and street waste pickers in the Free State province of South Africa

Catherina J. SchenckProfessor, Department of Social Work, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Phillip F. BlaauwProfessor, School of Economics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South AfricaView further author information
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Jacoba M.M. ViljoenSenior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaView further author information
Pages 532-547 | Published online: 01 Jun 2016

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Olanrewaju Timothy Dada, Gbemiga Bolade Faniran, Deborah Bunmi Ojo & Amos Oluwole Taiwo. (2023) Waste pickers’ perception of occupational hazards and well-being in a Nigerian megacity. International Journal of Environmental Studies 80:4, pages 933-947.
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Siwaphiwe Bala, Derick Blaauw, Carmen Christian & Derek Yu. (2023) Identifying the prospects of decent job creation along the value chain of plastic recycling. Development Southern Africa 40:3, pages 507-524.
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Shaheen Sewparsadh Thakur & Adrian Nel. (2022) Between the market and the developmental state – the place and limits of pro-poor ENGO led “waste-preneurship” in South Africa. Local Environment 27:12, pages 1446-1460.
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Derek Yu, Derick Blaauw & Rinie Schenck. (2020) Waste pickers in informal self-employment: Over-worked and on the breadline. Development Southern Africa 37:6, pages 971-996.
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Fannie Machete. (2019) A review of the influence of municipal sustainable supply chain management on South Africa’s recycling performance. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 11:5, pages 643-651.
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Catherina J Schenck, Phillip F Blaauw, Elizabeth C Swart, Jacoba M M Viljoen & Naome Mudavanhu. (2019) The management of South Africa’s landfills and waste pickers on them: Impacting lives and livelihoods. Development Southern Africa 36:1, pages 80-98.
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Grace Kadyamadare & Melanie Samson. (2023) Thinking Households—How Resident Conceptualisations of Waste, Reclaimers and Separation at Source Shape Recycling Practices. Urban Forum.
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Carolina Ibelli-Bianco, Julia Paula Soprani Guimarães, Luciana Harue Yamane & Renato Ribeiro Siman. (2022) Education and training: Key solution to self-management and economic sustainability of waste pickers organisations. Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, pages 0734242X2210800.
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Shamim Aryampa, Basant Maheshwari, Elly N. Sabiiti, Najib L. Bateganya & Christopher Olobo. (2022) Understanding the impacts of waste disposal site closure on the livelihood of local communities in africa: A case study of the kiteezi landfill in Kampala, Uganda. World Development Perspectives 25, pages 100391.
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Kerry S. Wilson, Tahira Kootbodien, Felix Made, Simbulele Mdleleni, Nonhlanhla Tlotleng, Vusi Ntlebi & Nisha Naicker. (2021) Men and women waste pickers on landfills in Johannesburg, South Africa: divergence in health, and socioeconomic status. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 95:2, pages 351-363.
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Shunsuke Sasaki, Yunhee Choi & Kohei Watanabe. (2022) Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia. Habitat International 119, pages 102501.
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Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Tariq Yousafzai, Salim Khan, Wisal Ahmad, Muhammad Salman, Heesup Han, Antonio Ariza-Montes & Alejandro Vega-Muñoz. (2021) Assessing the Formal and Informal Waste Recycling Business Processes through a Stakeholders Lens in Pakistan. Sustainability 13:21, pages 11717.
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Tara Rava Zolnikov, Frances Furio, Vanessa Cruvinel & June Richards. (2021) A systematic review on informal waste picking: Occupational hazards and health outcomes. Waste Management 126, pages 291-308.
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Phillip Blaauw, Anmar Pretorius, Kotie Viljoen & Rinie Schenck. (2019) Adaptive Expectations and Subjective Well-being of Landfill Waste Pickers in South Africa’s Free State Province. Urban Forum 31:1, pages 135-155.
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