The Americas

Red Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras Autoempleadas (RENATTA)

Asociación Nacional de Recicladores (ANR)

Movimento Nacional dos Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis (MNCR)

Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular (UTEP)

CATA – Climate Change and Women Waste Pickers

Belo Horizonte

How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People

By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers...

Overturning the Productivity Mandate: Putting People at the Centre

It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they...

Written Observations on the Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Content and Scope of the Right to Care as a Human Right and its Interrelation with Other Rights

WIEGO submitted written observations to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the right to care. The submission was developed...

Statistics on Waste Pickers: A Case Studies Guide

This report draws on the experiences and efforts of organizations of waste pickers to develop and make data on them available to policymakers...