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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities

    The chapter is on pages 41-47.

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  • Journal Articles

    South Africa’s Waste Pickers Creating Jobs and Fighting Poverty

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  • Worker Story

    Deus é meu Despertador

    Série Vida dos Trabalhadores. Dona Maria Brás foi uma força incansável na luta das cooperativas de catadores brasileiros contra a perseguição...

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  • Briefs

    Análise do Orçamento Público Diretamente Destinado a Alguns Setores da Economia Informal no Brasil

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  • Policy Briefs

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

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  • City/Country Level Reports

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

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  • Global Reports

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

    This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Journal Articles