Waste Pickers

In India, Pune’s Poorest Operate One of the World’s Most Cost-effective Waste Management Models

A Q&A with Lakshmi Narayan As cities across the globe struggle to find efficient, cost-effective ways to manage waste, the women waste...

Eye Witness: WIEGO’s Brazilian Waste Expert Dispatches from India

WIEGO’s Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP) on Law and Informality brought global experts to Ahmedabad, India, to stay two nights in the homes...

Q&A: New Project Highlights Health Risks Faced by Waste Pickers

Waste pickers may keep cities clean, but they face hazardous conditions on the job. Their health and wellbeing is at risk on a daily basis....

Senegal’s Dump Upgrading Doesn’t Have to Displace Waste Pickers

The theme of World Habitat Day 2018 is municipal solid waste management and creating “waste wise cities.” In this article, WIEGO’s Waste...

Can Waste Pickers Help Solve Delhi’s Towering Trash Problem?

With Avi Singh Majithia Delhi’s Qutub Minar, the tallest minaret in the world, rises high above many of the capital city’s landmarks, but...

Waste has Worth — and So Do the Women Working to Collect It

A step-by-step guide to building empowerment among women waste pickers By Sonia Dias and Ana Carolina Ogando Women across the globe share...

Planeta Verde: cooperativa colombiana revoluciona la recolección de residuos

Planeta Verde: The Colombian Cooperative Revolutionizing Waste Picking

In celebration of International Cooperatives Day, we speak with Martha Elena Iglesias, a waste picker and the leader of Planeta Verde, a...

Audio: How Bangalore’s itinerant waste pickers transformed into “robust entrepreneurs”

WIEGO has a unique organizational structure — we are a network of membership-based organizations, researchers, and practitioners, all working...

Como uma Cidade Brasileira Usou o Teatro e a Música para Popularizar a Reciclagem – e os trabalhadores pobres por trás dessa atividade

Por Carlin Carr