All posts in Inclusive Recycling and Waste Management
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Working Papers
Informal Sector Integration and High Performance Recycling: Evidence from 20 Cities
The global informal recycling sector has come into focus as the base of the industrial value chain. With few exceptions, reports and articles...
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Research Reports
Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?
This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.
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Working Papers
Eficiência e Solidariedade nas Associações de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis
As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos...
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Research Reports
Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia
Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”
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Working Papers
Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Catadores, Participação e Cidadania – Novas Articulações?
This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept...
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Research Reports
Certification of Occupational Skills: A Decisive Step Towards Professionalizing Waste Picking as an Occupation and Recycling of Solid Waste in Colombia
This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...
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Policy Briefs
Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil
Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...
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Research Reports
Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State
Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.
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Policy Briefs
The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation
A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization...
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Research Reports
Managing Urban Waste as Common Pool Resources
Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.
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