Waste Pickers

Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations

Eficiência e Solidariedade nas Associações de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis

As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos...

Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente, Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal

Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

Role of Informal Recyclers in Small and Medium Towns in India

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

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.