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Muscle power and Waste and recycling

Waste and recycling depends on muscle power.

Muscle power (energy) and Waste and recycling (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Muscle power → Waste and recycling

1 of the enterprise types in Waste and recycling depend on muscle power; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 1 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Informal waste pickers, kabadiwalas and scrap aggregators: hand carts and manual sorting (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.