Skip To Content

Waste Pickers

All posts in Waste Pickers

  • Research Reports

    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...

    Read More
  • Working Papers

    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...

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    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...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Certification of Occupational Skills

    This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Proyecto de reconocimiento de la situación de derechos humanos de los recicladores en latinoamérica: El caso de Ciudad de México, México

    El presente documento describe en qué consiste la labor de los trabajadores voluntarios, la forma en que se realiza, las condiciones de salud...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Waste and Citizenship Forums – Achievements and Limitations

    Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Organizando nas Ruas: Um estudo dos Catadores de recicláveis nas ruas da Cidade do Cabo

    Um resumo baseado no relatório de Koni Benson e Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, (ILRIG) – Grupo Internacional de Informação e Pesquisa de Trabalho

    Read More
  • 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...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

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

    An issues paper for the United Nations Development Programme

    Read More
  • Statistical Briefs

    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...

    Read More