Pemulung: Perbedaan antara revisi

[[Berkas:Jakarta slumlife71.JPG|350px|thumb|Seorang pemulung di [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]]]]

 

Berbagai bentuk pemilahan sampah telah dipraktekkan sejak zaman kuno, tetapi tradisi pemilahan sampah modern berakar selama industrialisasi pada abad kesembilan belas.<ref name="Medina book">{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Medina|title=The World's Scavengers: Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production|year=2007|publisher=Altamira Press|location=New York}}</ref> Selama setengah abad terakhir, pemilahan sampah telah berkembang pesat di negara berkembang karena urbanisasi, kolonialisme beracun, dan perdagangan sampah global.<ref name="Wilson">{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=D. C., Velis, C., Cheeseman, C.|title=Role of informal sector in recycling in waste management in developing countries|year=2005|publisher=Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Centre for Environmental control and Waste Management|location=London}}</ref> Banyak kota hanya menyediakan pengumpulan sampah padat.<ref>{{cite journal|last= Scheinberg |author2=Justine Anschütz |title=Slim pickin's: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernisation of urban waste management systems |journal=International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development|doi= 10.1386/ijtm.5.3.257/1 |date=December 2007| volume=5|issue=3 |pages=257–27}}</ref>