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Contribution of waste pickers' grassroots organizations to waste management in Victoria and Vancouver

Costa de Castro, Ana Maria Rodrigues; Gutberlet, Jutta

2025-01-01

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This is a chapter in the book, Solid Waste Management in Canada. Book description: This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including Indigenous communities. It provides the reader with an understanding of various solid waste management approaches, policies, practices, barriers, and innovations that are being pursued and developed by jurisdictions to solve their current challenges and improve current systems in place. Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors include social scientists, engineers, economists, scientists, urban planners, and practitioners in the solid waste management field, who utilize qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in examining solid waste management issues in Canada.