Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

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 Livelihoods: The Role of Reclaimers in Municipal Waste Management Systems

WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia

World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

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

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Bogotá, Colombia

On the Road to Zero Waste

This set of zero waste case studies profiles nine diverse communities, each providing a real-world example of authentic progress toward the...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...

Certification of Occupational Skills: A Decisive Step Towards Professionalizing Waste Picking as an Occupation and Recycling of Solid Waste in Colombia

This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries