Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

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...

The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

La Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Recicladores website

Apnalaya

An NGO that helps children living in slums towards a better life through urban community development projects in Mumbai. 

Organizational Health and Safety Learning Meeting May 2011 – KKPKP

OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

WIEGO MBO Newsletter March 2011

Social and Environmental Footprint of the Waste Industry flyer

A flyer for an event of the People’s Summit in Rio, June 2012

Boletim WIEGO das Organizações de Base Agosto 2012

Boletim WIEGO para as Organizações de Base de Trabalhadores Informais, agosto 2012  

RTE Maharashtra – 25% Reservation for Admission in Private Schools

This is a story of the struggle of some parents who wanted to get their children admitted to private schools through the 25% reservation...