Gender and Waste Project

Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

Waste Pickers Lead the Way to Zero Waste

This is a case study, published by GAIA, about waste pickers in Pune, India.

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Waste Pickers and Cities

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

Recovering resources, creating opportunities: Integrating the informal sector into solid waste management

Gênero e Meio Ambiente: A dupla Jornada de Injustiça Ambiental em uma Cooperativa de Mulheres de Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis.

em português   ABSTRACTS:   English VALLIN, Isabella de Carvalho. Gender and Environment: the double burden of environmental injustice in...

List of literature related to the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management

Other publications about solid waste management and the informal sector

Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

Failing the Grade: How Cities Across India are Breaking the Rules, Ignoring the Informal Recycling Sector and Unable to Make the Grade

Indian policies and rules, while not perfect, have some important safeguards and recognition for informal sector recyclers, particularly...

Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...