Waste Pickers

Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in...

Health Conditions of Recyclable Waste Pickers

Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

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...

Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy

WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...