Urbanization and Development

Urbanization and Development

Informal Urban Mining

by Minija Augustinaite, Hakan Aktug, Martina Zini

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In this book chapter we are looking at urban mining of e-waste (waste of electrical and electronic equipment) in three Indian cities: Bengaluru, Mumbai, and New Delhi. The recycling process is mainly carried out by informal workers in indigent conditions. We aim to understand the informal recycling practices and their effect on the workers, the environment they live in, and the social aspects of being informal recyclers. We use modernization theory, GVC, and Human Development approach. We discover that informal labor is traditional and that the benefit of formal linkages would be the recognition of the presence of informal labor in e-waste management.

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