Waste Pickers

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....

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

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Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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

Handling and Management Rules 2000, A Discussion Paper

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...