The Return of Business Creation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hathaway ◽  
Jordan Bell-Masterson ◽  
Daniel Stangler
Keyword(s):  
Business Creation

scholarly journals Sustainability of Recycling Waste Picker Sustainopreneurs for Prevention and Mitigation of Municipal Solid Waste in Swat

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6533
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nawaz ◽  
Muhammad Tariq Yousafzai ◽  
Tariq Shah ◽  
Chunlin Xin ◽  
Wisal Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Spare Parts ◽  
Tax Amnesty ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Metal Recycling ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
Inductive Research ◽  
Waste Energy ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Tax Holidays ◽  
Counterfeit Products

This study assessed the role of waste picker sustainopreneurs (WPS) by examining their recycling contributions in a special case of District Swat, Pakistan. Using a transformative worldview, this study acknowledges their contributions to recycling. The study envisages how entrepreneurial agency works in unanticipated ways where the poorest of the poor enterprise without resources demonstrate unexpected agency to improve the environment. An inductive research design in conjunction with grounded theory was used to analyze data from 37 interviews in three tehsils of District Swat. The recycling sector uses primitive measures, which are completely informal, self-organized, and self-controlled. Surprisingly, we discovered that informal recycling contributes unfavorably to waste, energy, and food (WEF) security due to intermixing and adulteration, as well as acts as a gray channel for illicit practices that have taken advantage of tax amnesty in the area until 2023. The uncontrolled welding of half cut and nose cut car parts has skyrocketed the motorization index and CO2 emissions; however, it has also resulted in alternative sources of livelihoods, as these accidental environmentalists had found modern sources of income. This is similar to low-tech innovation and business creation that takes advantage of tax holidays due to the special status of District Swat. The study highlights the most and least valuable recyclables and identifies the gray channel markets of spare parts, metal recycling, counterfeit products, fuel intermixing, and adulteration. The study contributes by untangling the understanding of a legal gambit of tax amnesty at a critical pre-policy input as well as advocates for rights of invisible stakeholders of waste management in Pakistan.

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