Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

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

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

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

Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming

Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...

A Crise Econômica Global e a Economia Informal – Ficha informativa

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

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...

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...

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...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries