Valuable information on recyclable waste: Mobile phones and the rationalization of the scrap-handling sector in Myanmar

Aricat, Rajiv George; Ling, Rich

doi:10.1080/01972243.2020.1805248

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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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“…The daily earnings of ragpickers vary depending not only on what and how much they collect, but also on the market price of the recyclables at the time of sale to the middlemen, and the bargaining power of the ragpickers (Kulshrestha 2011;Aricat et al 2020). Bhopal in central India (Kulshrestha 2011); close to 100% in Pondicherry and 20% on average in Indian cities (Joshi et al 2016)] from landfills and dumpsites.…”

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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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Introduction to the special section “Platforms, precarity, and entrepreneurship: Mobile communication in Asia”

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Ling

2020

The Information Society

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The origins of mobile communication research

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Fortunati

2023

Mobile Media & Communication

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In this piece we will trace the early development of mobile communication research and its institutionalization. We will also sketch out future issues.As one might expect, early research examining the social consequences of mobile communication was a reaction to the diffusion of the technology. According to Bento (2012), mobile communication first appeared in the late 1970s. It began to gain a foothold in Scandinavia in the 1980s and was also adopted in the Global North (e.g., Europe and Japan but not the United States 1 ) in the 1990s. After the millennium shift, diffusion extended to other parts of the world including Asia (particularly China and India) and Africa (International Telecommunications Union [ITU], 2018).This diffusion pattern is mirrored in the growth of mobile communication research. In broad strokes, after some pioneering research, the research community had its nascency in the early 1990s in the work of European scholars. These people were often employed by network operators 2 and the work was developed in European-based projects such as the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) 248, 269, 298 actions and the Eurescom P903 project that are described below. It was in these projects that several of the early researchers first came together including Leopoldina Fortunati (

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Valuable information on recyclable waste: Mobile phones and the rationalization of the scrap-handling sector in Myanmar

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

Introduction to the special section “Platforms, precarity, and entrepreneurship: Mobile communication in Asia”

The origins of mobile communication research

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