Waste Pickers

Informal Sector Integration and High Performance Recycling: Evidence from 20 Cities

The global informal recycling sector has come into focus as the base of the industrial value chain. With few exceptions, reports and articles...

Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

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A Note on SWaCH

The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

Report on Scrap Collectors, Scrap Traders, and Recycling Enterprises in Pune

The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...

Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

First Take: Waste – Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America)

Waste—its generation, collection and disposal—is a major global challenge in the 21st century. This is the lead article of the special issue...

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 the World’s Waste: Waste Pickers Organizing for Inclusion