Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

Waste Pickers Infographic, 2017

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

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...

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’...

Recognizing Waste Pickers

In many developing countries, high recycling rates (50-80%) can be credited to the informal sector. Johnston Doe explains how waste pickers...

Chintan: Counterbalance Video

Where waste picker Mohammad Nazir from Delhi explains how they earn less (because of less access to waste due to the new private company...

PDF from GTZ´s Website

This report is based on three studies prepared for the Deutsche Gesellschaft fürTechnische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH

WIEGO MBO Newsletter December 2011

December 2011

Women Behind the Wheel: The Story of Satvashila Potekar

SWaCH waste picker co-operative operates door-to-door waste collection for households in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. Waste-collection...

Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences (Hindi)

Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 5 (Hindi)

Global Alliance of Waste Pickers Newsletter, August – September 2012