Role of rag pickers in solid waste management: a case study of Mirzapur, U.P.

Ojha, Vivek; Tripathi, V. N.; Krishna, Vijai

doi:10.1504/ijetm.2014.061803

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“…Table 1. Categorisation on the basis of temporality of data analysed (italicisation used as identifier of publications belonging to more than group) (2016( ), Florin (2015, Etcheverry et al (2014), Gothoskar (2014), Gigengack (2014), Ojha et al (2014), Kandasamy et al (2013), Kulshrestha (2011), Chandramohan et al (2010), Wachukwu et al (2010), Thapa et al (2009), da Silva et al (2006a), da Silva et al (2006b), Gupta and Boojh (2006), da Silva et al (2005), Ray et al (2004), Purohit et al (2001), Joshi, S (1998), Singh (1999), Sharma (1995) 5-20 Coledam et al (2022), Rajendiran et al (2022), Prihandoko et al (2021), Venkiteela (2020), , Aricat et al (2020), Hillenbrand (2019), Khatoon et al (2019), Saikia (2019), Joshi et al (2016), Florin (2015, Uplap et al (2014), Gigengack (2014), Kulshrestha (2011), Malik et al (2002 >20 Moll (2020), Venkiteela (2020), Hillenbrand (2019), Sainsbury (2019), Craig (2019), Le Roy (2017), Berg (2015), Florin (2015),…”

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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review

Govindarajan

2023

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Ragpickers have long led a marginalised, subliminal and deprived existence, and have silently gone about contributing to ‘informal waste recycling’, diverting in many cities and towns, over half of the recyclable wastes from dumpsites to the technosphere. The reviewer has based this paper on 60 peer-reviewed publications spanning a time period of 28 years – from 1995 – 2022, originating from over a dozen different countries, and encompassing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. The discussion has been structured around the six question words – Where/Wherefrom, When, How, What, Why and Who/Whom. While there is no claim of any addition per se being made to the extant body of knowledge, the reviewer would like to describe this as an attempt to simply collate existing knowledge to serve the practical purpose of highlighting the plight of our impoverished, malnourished, oppressed brethren, to elicit appreciation, understanding and support for them, from policymakers in government, CSR personnel from the corporate world, journalists in the media, and most importantly, from the common urban denizens. All these entities can work shoulder to shoulder with the NGOs who have been relentlessly striving to help the rag-pickers to ‘stay afloat’. The reviewer fondly hopes that this will motivate more concerted transdisciplinary applied research predicated on the Sustainable Development Goals – a collaboration among the disciplines of healthcare, sociology, psychology, urban planning, sustainable development, environmental engineering, and even art and poetry.

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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review

Govindarajan

2023

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Eight years to Go, to Meet the SDG Targets: Waste Management as Enabler and Enabled

Govindarajan

2023

Urban Metabolism and Climate Change

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Assessing the Occupational and Environmental Health Hazards among Rag-Pickers: A Systematic Review

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The vulnerability occupational health hazard of ragpickers has emerged as a serious public health threat and has had a tremendous impact on all spheres of the environment nearby landfill and other side of solid waste locations. Since 1970, large numbers of studies have been carried out on the impact of health conditions on ragpickers around the world, but no studies have been carried out on the scientific/systematic review on the impact of health due to their occupational impact at global level. This study aims to systematically assess the scientific review on the impact of occupation on ragpickers and their environmental conditions. For this study, total 339 studies were identified after rigorous review, and 134 studies met the criteria for the review. The literature was surveyed from Scopus, Google Scholar, Research gate, Web of Science, semantic scholar and the Google search engine. The results reveal that (i) most of the studies were carried out continent wise on: Asia, followed by Europe, Africa, and South America. About 69 (51.5%) of the total studies were surveyed from Asia, followed by Africa 32 (23.88%), South America 30 (22.39%), and Europe is only 3 (2.23%) has found in the open database on related to the topic. (ii) in the case of countries, the highest number of studies was performed on India (30.60%), followed by Brazil (19.40), South Africa (14%), Bangladesh (8%), Ghana (6%), Study results out that chemical, biological work place hazard are more risky environmental hazard in their occupations.

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Role of rag pickers in solid waste management: a case study of Mirzapur, U.P.

Cited by 3 publications

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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review

Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review

Eight years to Go, to Meet the SDG Targets: Waste Management as Enabler and Enabled

Assessing the Occupational and Environmental Health Hazards among Rag-Pickers: A Systematic Review

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