SOCIO-ECONOMIC & HEALTH CONDITIONS OF SCRAP DEALERS IN PUDUCHERRY

Abstract

The scrap dealers are playing pivotal role in the scrap recycling business as well as they are part of cleaning the society and more helpful to implement 6 R methods in reducing solid waste. In scrap business the wholesale scrap dealers are earning good revenue then the retailer scrap dealers. The retailers meet their investment and expenditure of scrap business with their revenue. Most of the scrap dealers have obtained professional degrees and finding entrepreneurial opportunities in scrap dealing business. Their income as purely depends upon the market price of the scrap like plastic materials, metal items, e-waste, pet bottles, glass waste, cotton boxes and quantity of waste. The scrap dealers are collecting waste from the households and commercials area through rag pickers and garbage collectors. Both wholesaler and retailer selling their scrap to the recycling agent (middleman) to make business and to sustain their livelihoods. But the socio-economic conditions of the retailers are not satisfactory level. This paper makes an attempt to highlights the socio economic and health conditions of the scrap dealers in Puducherry urban limit.