Waste Pickers

Waste Pickers: A Gendered Perspective

Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

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

Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers

Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...

Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases

Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...

Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

Reclaiming the World’s Waste: Waste Pickers Organizing for Inclusion

Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

Organizando en las calles: Un estudio de recicladores en las calles de Ciudad del Cabo

Un resumen basado en el informe de Koni Benson y Nanadi Vanga-Mgijima, Grupo Internacional de Investigación e Información Laboral

God is My Alarm Clock: A Brazilian Waste Picker’s Story

The story of an informal worker, Mrs. Maria Brás, who was a tireless force in the struggle of waste pickers in Brazil to overcome persecution...