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  • Legal Instruments

    Plastic Waste Management and Handling Amendment Rules, 2011

    This document contains the rules for the management and handing of plastic waste.

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  • Presentations

    Cooperation among workers in the informal economy

    This presentation is a summary of the main findings of an ILO-WIEGO study on the nature and role of cooperatives and other Social and Solidarity...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Waste Picker Perceptions on and Health Risks: Perspectives from the Ground

    Keynote presentation by Ana Carolina Ogando, research associate in the Urban Policies programme of the global network “Women in Informal...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    KKPKP’s Documentary

    The film features KKPKP and the development of SwaCH, a recycling cooperative in Pune, India.View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Asociación Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia

    Información sobre la Asociación Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Dudu Nobre apoia catadores de recicláveis em Barretos

    Dudu Nobre apóia catadores no youtube

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Global Alliance of Waste Pickers Newsletter, March 2012

    Published by:  Global Alliance of Waste Pickers

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Waste Pickers Take the Global Stage

    The arrival of a strong, prepared and articulate movement of waste pickers to the UN climate change talks shifted perceptions.

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Urban Informal Workers and the Green Economy – Fact Sheet

    Fact SheetProduced for the Rio+20 international conference in 2012, this fact sheet details how sectors within the informal economy are playing...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    A Beijing Recycler’s Life

    This video follows recyclers in Beijing and shares the work they have been doing for 20 years. The video is in Chinese with English subtitles....

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