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The management of South Africa’s landfills and waste pickers on them: Impacting lives and livelihoods

Catherina J SchenckDepartment of Social Work, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Phillip F BlaauwSchool of Economics, North West University, Potchefstroom, South AfricaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8750-4946View further author information
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Elizabeth C SwartDepartment of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South AfricaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-7786-3117View further author information
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Jacoba M M ViljoenDepartment of Economics and Econometrics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-9684View further author information
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Naome MudavanhuDepartment of Social Work, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South AfricaView further author information
Pages 80-98 | Published online: 13 Jun 2018

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Anmar Pretorius, Derick Blaauw, Rinie Schenck & Lizette Grobler. (2023) Towards a circular economy: A cross-case analysis of recycling in three South African towns. Development Southern Africa 40:5, pages 944-960.
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Kathleen Stokes & Mary Lawhon. (2022) What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa. Area Development and Policy 0:0, pages 1-21.
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Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes & Mary Lawhon. (2022) Whose Value Lies in the Urban Mine? Reconfiguring Permissions, Work, and the Benefits of Waste in South Africa. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112:7, pages 1942-1957.
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R. V. Niyobuhungiro & C. J. Schenck. (2022) A global literature review of the drivers of indiscriminate dumping of waste: Guiding future research in South Africa. Development Southern Africa 39:3, pages 321-337.
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John Foster, Mihalis Chasomeris & Derick Blaauw. (2021) Re-visiting car guarding as a livelihood in the informal sector. Development Southern Africa 38:5, pages 769-784.
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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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Marc Kalina. (2020) Waste management in a more unequal world: centring inequality in our waste and climate change discourse. Local Environment 25:8, pages 612-618.
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