All posts in Climate Change and Just Transition
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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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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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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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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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