Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers

By Beatriz Judice Magalhães on May 01, 2014

Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places across the globe.

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Magalhães, Beatriz J. Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers. , , . , 2014. Magalhães, B. J. (2014). Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers. , , . Magalhães, Beatriz J. "Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers." 2014, .Magalhães Beatriz J. "Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers." (2014). Magalhães, B J 2014, 'Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers', , , . Beatriz J Magalhães, 'Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers' (2014). Magalhães B. J. Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers. . 2014. Magalhães, Beatriz J. Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers. . 2014. , .

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