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Quantification of Plastic Recovery by the Informal Waste Sector through a Probabilistic Approach
Summary
Researchers used a probabilistic modeling approach to estimate how much plastic waste informal sector workers recover in India, quantifying the sector's unrecognized contribution to diverting plastics from mismanaged disposal while highlighting the uncertainties inherent in bottom-up recovery estimates for low-middle-income country contexts.
Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to human health and the environment, with its impacts expected to worsen due to rising global plastic production. Mismanagement of plastic waste is particularly high in low-middle-income countries like India, which ranks as the 12th largest source of p...