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  • Journal Articles

    Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

    This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

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    Slim pickin’s: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernization of urban waste management systems

    Abstract: Informal sector scavengers or waste pickers have been unrecognized stakeholders on the fringes of the urban waste landscape since...

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  • Research Reports

    Resumo dos principais achados – Cooperacao entre trabalhadores na economia informal: Um foco nos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras domiciliares e catadores e catadoras de material reciclavel

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  • Research Reports

    Recycling Livelihoods – Integration of the Informal Recycling Sector in Solid Waste Management in India

    Study prepared for GTZ’s sector project “Promotion of Concepts for Pro-Poor and Environmentally Friendly Closed-Loop Approaches in Solid...

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    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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  • Research Reports

    Sem almofadas para amenizar o tombo – Sumário Executivo

    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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    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Nordeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez Relatórios sobre outras regiões:Centro-OesteNorteSudesteSul ...

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