Waste Pickers’ Life & Livelihood

By The WIEGO Team on February 01, 2011

The contributions waste pickers—the majority of whom are women—make to recycle and cut down on overall garbage burned or buried is being overlooked in an effort to modernize waste collection, leading to further marginalization of this vulnerable group.

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