Waste Pickers

Waste Pickers in Brazil: promoting sustainable development through poverty eradication policies

Concept note presented for 69th United Nations General Assembly’s Side Event organized by the Presidency of Brazil and CEMPRE.

Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...

Occupational and Environmental Health Issues of Solid Waste Management – Special Emphasis on Middle- and Lower-Income Countries

Urban Papers, 2

Livelihoods With Dignity

Electronic Waste in Developing Countries – Recycling, Responsibility, Revenue for the Poor?

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...

Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente, Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal

Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

Role of Informal Recyclers in Small and Medium Towns in India

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia