Waste Pickers

Engaging With the Urban Poor and Their Organizations for Poverty Reduction and Urban Governance

An issues paper for the United Nations Development Programme

Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil

In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited...

Trajetόrias e Memόrias dos Fόruns Lixo e Cidadania No Brasil: Experimentos Singulares de Justiça Social e Governança Participativa

Summary available in English here.

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

Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

Repensando a articulação entre catadores, gestão integrada e sustentável de resíduous sólidos e desenvolvimento

Este artigo intenta explorar alguns dos desafios, paradoxos e limites no processo de associação do lixo à cidadania, chamando particularmente...

Recycling Livelihoods: A Global Network Supports Waste-Pickers in Latin America

Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first...

The Work and Lives of Street Waste Pickers in Pretoria—A Case Study of Recycling in South Africa’s Urban Informal EconomyUrban Forum

Abstract: High levels of unemployment are a permanent feature in the urban areas of many developing countries. South Africa is no exception...

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

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE