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  • Research Reports

    On the Road to Zero Waste

    This set of zero waste case studies profiles nine diverse communities, each providing a real-world example of authentic progress toward the...

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  • Journal Articles

    Bwala Five FiveWorld Environment Magazine

    This photodocumentary about “Ghana: Picking Waste for a Living” begins on page 56.

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  • Research Reports

    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.

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    Self Employed Women : A Profile of SEWA’s Membership

    Abstract: This booklet provides a thorough analysis of the membership of SEWA, Self Employed Women‟s Association. SEWA is an officially registered...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production

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  • Research Reports

    Organizando en las calles: Un estudio de recicladores en las calles de Ciudad del Cabo

    Un resumen basado en el informe de Koni Benson y Nanadi Vanga-Mgijima, Grupo Internacional de Investigación e Información Laboral

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  • Journal Articles

    Waste management and the workplace

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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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