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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadores de Nakuru, Quênia

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

    This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

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  • Research Reports

    Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

    Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

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  • Journal Articles

    Revolution in the Garbage Dump: The Political and Economic Foundations of the Colombian

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  • Research Reports

    Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

    Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Journal Articles

    Minor Psychiatric Disorders Among Brazilian Ragpickers: A Cross-Sectional Study

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  • Research Reports

    No Cushion to Fall Back On – Executive Summary

    Report available in English here.Informe disponible en español aquí.Fact Sheet available in English here.Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

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  • Journal Articles

    Catadores nas políticas públicas

    Especial – Vida nas ruas População em situação de rua e o direito à Cidade

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  • Policy Briefs

    Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

    Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

    No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in...

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