Theme: Inclusive Recycling and Waste Management

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

Trajectories and Memories – Waste and Citizenship Forums: Unique Experiments of Social Justice and Participatory Governance

Summary of PhD Thesis by Sonia Maria Dias. Full thesis available in Portuguese here.

WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia

Report on Scrap Collectors, Scrap Traders, and Recycling Enterprises in Pune

Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

New Practices of Waste Management – Case of Mumbai

Working Paper No. 35 in the SP Working Paper Series of School of Planning of CEPT University

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...

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.

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...

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.”