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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers: Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Project Reports

    Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

    Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

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  • Research Reports

    Rising from the Waste– Organising Wastepickers in India, Thailand and the Philippines

    Abstract:

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  • Research Reports

    Integrating the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management Systems – Basic Aspects and Experiences

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Policy Briefs

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    Revitalising Economies of Disassembly: Informal Recyclers, Development Experts and E-Waste Reforms in BangaloreEconomic and Political Weekly

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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Centro-Oeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Nordeste NorteSudeste Sul ...

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Journal Articles

    Raccoglitori di Residui; Una panoramica globale sul primo anello del circuito del riciclaggio (Waste pickers: a global view on the first step of the recycling chain)CWG-Reorient- Retos al Sur

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