Brazil

Brazilian recyclers take the wheel in door to door collection

In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a new model of selective collection has given informal catadores (recyclers) responsibility for collecting door-to-door...

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...

Trabalho Informal e Direito à Cidade

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Informality and Inclusive Green Growth

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...

Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil

In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited...

Relatórios das Cidades, Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal – Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond...

Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

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...