Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

Garbage

(Turkish with English subtitles)A documentary about the lives of waste pickers in  a garbage dump in Turkey. 

Gender and Waste Recycling Toolkit: Exercise 5 – Workshop Evaluation

Exercise 5 – Closing Session: Evaluating the Workshop This workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication...

Notas Ferramenta No 1: Quebra-Gelo

Da Teoria à Ação: Gênero e Reciclagem de Resíduos Um Kit de Ferramentas para Professores, Pesquisadores e Profissionais

Nohra Padilla, the Voice of Bogota’s Recycler at COP21

Nohra Padilla, a Colombian waste picker/recycler advocate and recipient of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Award, is interviewed by Cities...

Laura de RENAREC habla de la importancia de organizarse para lograr el reconocimiento

Laura Guanoluisa de la Red Nacional de Recicladores de Ecuador (RENAREC) habla de la importancia de los uniformes de los recicladores, el...

GAIA Fall 2016 Newsletter

Waste picker news from around the world in GAIA’s fall 2016 newsletter. Find additional information about GAIA here.

ILC, 102nd session 2013, fourth sitting

The text (English) and a recording (Spanish) of the speech by Nohra Padilla at the 2013 International Labour Conference are available on...

Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handiling Rules), 2000

This document outlines the rules that apply to every municipal authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation,,...

Cuidar Project: Waste Pickers’ Health Risk Mapping

La Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Recicladores website