Waste Pickers

Mainstreaming Waste Pickers and the Informal Recycling Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste

Handling and Management Rules 2000, A Discussion Paper

A Paper Life: Belgrade’s Roma in the Underworld of Waste Scavenging and Recycling

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

The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil

The book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil (waste pickers and street vendors at Porto...

Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground

While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult...

Integração de Trabalhadores Informais na Coleta Seletiva de Recicláveis: o Caso de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Esta nota informativa traz uma análise mais detalhada sobre a gênese e os elementos chaves da política pública voltada para a integração...

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

This report proposes a a number of policies to help address the existing vulnerabilities of workers in the informal economy and minimize...

Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider

This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based...

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

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.