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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Gender and Recycling: Tools for Project Design and Implementation: Regional Initiative for Inclusive Recycling

    This Guide is intended to be used in the preparation of projects that contribute to the formalization of recyclers and their integration...

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  • Research Reports

    Estudio en seguridad industrial y salud ocupacional para el caso del trabajo del reciclador en la calle

    La producción de desechos y basuras es el resultado ignorado de un modelo de desarrollo capitalista, altamente extractivista para los países...

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Greater Monrovia

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

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  • Working Papers

    Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

    This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences

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

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  • Research Reports

    A Crise Econômica Global e a Economia Informal – Sumario Executivo

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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