This document can also be of interest to other interested parties/organizations that aim at sThere are few formal systems of materials recovery through the public or private sectors in Africa. Instead, materials recovery, including source separation and recycling, is largely the domain of the informal sector. The activity is focused on components of economic and/or social value and occurs at several levels. At the household level in low-income, peri-urban areas, materials recovery includes the reuse of plastic bags, bottles, paper, cardboard, and cans for domestic purposes. The rate of reuse of these types of materials is high, and these materials enter the formal waste collection system only when they are no longer fit for domestic use. In high-income areas, recovery is carried out by domestic servants and/or wardens. Rather than reusing the materials directly, they sell bottles, plastics, cardboard, and paper to intermediaries or commercial centres that pay for these materials. The extent to which these transactions occur depends on the availability of local marketable end uses for the materials.
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