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  • CO2 calculator Advocacy Materials

    Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Inclusive Recycling: Methodology & Calculator Tool

    A methodology and calculator tool enabling the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions that waste picker groups prevent. The tool, which...

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  • waste pickers clean up beach in Accra, Ghana Journal Articles

    A Green Army is Ready to Keep Plastic Waste Out of the Ocean

    This OpEd looks at the millions of waste pickers worldwide whose work gathering material is helping keep the oceans healthier.

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  • Technical Briefs

    Incineração de resíduos e Catadores: Um guia técnico sobre tecnologias de recuperação energética de resíduos sólidos

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  • informal waste pickers in Accra Technical Briefs

    Waste Incineration and Informal Livelihoods: A Technical Guide on Waste-to-Energy Initiatives

    This brief provides waste picker organizations, policymakers and practitioners with information about waste-to-energy initiatives, and solid...

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  • Members of Bokk Diom and local fisherfolk cleaning a beach together in Dakar. Project

    Reducing Waste in Coastal Cities through Inclusive Recycling

    The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials...

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  • Working Papers

    Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informality and Inclusive Green Growth

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  • Journal Articles

    Waste Pickers and Cities

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

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  • Journal Articles

    A cross-sectional survey to assess household sanitation practices associated with uptake of “Clean Team” serviced home toilets in Kumasi, Ghana

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

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  • Journal Articles

    Slim pickin’s: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernization of urban waste management systems

    Abstract: Informal sector scavengers or waste pickers have been unrecognized stakeholders on the fringes of the urban waste landscape since...

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