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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Waste Pickers Infographic, 2017

    This infographic was produced by WIEGO using the latest statistics and research on the waste picker sector.

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Organizing Waste Management Workers: The South African Experience

    This booklet describes how workers and employers have organized in South Africa’s waste management sector. The booklet is based on research...

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  • Presentations

    Wastepickers and the right to the city: Forging a new conceptualization of “the public” in waste management

    Presentation during Session 6 of the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference “Waste Pickers: Conceptualization of ‘The Public’...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Feeding Families: Meet Grace from Ghana

    Open dumps pose major environmental and health concerns. They also provide incomes for million of people worldwide. Waste picker Grace Avemegah...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Informal Workers in Focus Fact Sheet Collection

    Contains fact sheets on Street Vendors, Waste Collectors, and Home-based Workers (also available separately)

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    SWaCH

    Solid Waste Collection and Handling or, officially, the SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, Pune. SWaCH Coop is India’s first wholly-owned...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Museo del Riciclo

    Link do museu italiano de reciclagem – Link to the Italian museum of recycling

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    WIEGO MBO Newsletter July 2011

    July 2011

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Inclusive Cities Project Helping Urban Workers Make Gains

    The Inclusive Cities project is improving the lives of the urban working poor.

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Wanted: Space in the City

    A group of impoverished waste pickers in Munger, Bihar, India organized to protest the demolition of their traditional homes to make way...

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