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  • Research Reports

    Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

    Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

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  • Journal Articles

    Revolution in the Garbage Dump: The Political and Economic Foundations of the Colombian

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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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  • Research Reports

    Mainstreaming Waste Pickers and the Informal Recycling Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste

    Handling and Management Rules 2000, A Discussion Paper

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  • Research Reports

    Rising from the Waste– Organising Wastepickers in India, Thailand and the Philippines

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  • Research Reports

    Integrating the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management Systems – Basic Aspects and Experiences

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  • Journal Articles

    Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground

    While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Integração de Trabalhadores Informais na Coleta Seletiva de Recicláveis: o Caso de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

    Esta nota informativa traz uma análise mais detalhada sobre a gênese e os elementos chaves da política pública voltada para a integração...

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  • Policy Briefs

    O Fórum Municipal Lixo e Cidadania: Uma plataforma de Inclusão Social e Participação

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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Sudeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Centro-OesteNordeste NorteSul ...

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