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'Recycling is for drunks, addicts and babushkas' - inside Russia's shadowy waste industry

  • The Ecologist faviconThe Ecologist

    Feb 8, 2016, 8:42 am23 pts
    Official recycling rates in Russia stand at close to zero, writes Minna Halme. But my study of the potential to develop the sector uncovered widespread informal recycling networks, lurking in basements, stigmatised for supposed links to organised crime, barely tolerated by the authorities. And any ideas of…
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