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Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. (2015)
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Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. In J. Michie, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Why the Social Sciences Matter (60-76). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter shows that the social sciences are critical to the challenge of turning wastes to resources via materials recovery and recycling. For wastes to become resources they have to become products, bought and sold in markets. Economics and the... Read More about Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU..