All posts in Waste Pickers
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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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