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  • Sangeeta Ben walks her daily route working as a waste picker in an Ahmedabad slum Post

    Waste Pickers and EPR in India

    Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) transfers the responsibility of waste management from municipal authorities to the producers of the...

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    Efforts of Argentina’s Informal Waste Pickers to Finance Decent Work and Social Protection through Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation

    Based on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, organizations of informal waste pickers in Argentina have drafted a law that...

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  • Waste pickers at work in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Post

    Climate Crisis, Health and Informality: Building a Movement Across Borders

    Workers in informal employment experience frequent workplace exposure to a range of occupational health and safety risks. The climate crisis...

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    Calculadora de emissões de GEE 2.0

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  • Carmen Rosa Duitama is a member of the Waste Pickers Association of Bogotá Post
    Access to Public Space December 06, 2022

    5 Local Actions to Support the Informal Workforce that Should Go Global

    In promoting a better urban future, the United Nations recently called for the sharing of transformative approaches to local action – what...

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  • Waste picker cooperative in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Post

    Enhancing Urban Informal Workers’ Contribution to Equity: A Call to Action

    For its flagship GOLD Report, UCLG asked WIEGO for its expertise on the urban informal economy, with a focus on an agenda for action for...

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  • Ground Score Association worker Christine Alix reviews COVID-19 safety protocols at Ground Score’s producer-funded People’s Depot in Oregon, USA Technical Briefs

    Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Waste Pickers

    This brief explores the challenges that waste pickers face with EPR and offers ideas for developing more inclusive EPR systems, based on...

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  • Malika, one of Dakar’s 19 communes d’arrondissement (administrative divisions), on 10 December 2021. Post

    Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?

    Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...

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    Oi! Foi bom te ver lá na formação. Na sua turma também tinha catadores e catadoras do Brasil todo e que trabalhavam na rua ou galpão?

    Cartão-Memória Cata Saúde: Este cartão-memória reconta como foi o projeto de capacitação online Cata Saúde Viraliza a partir de um diálogo...

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    Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Inclusive Recycling

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