Gender and Waste Project

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

WIEGO, its work on waste-pickers and the first World Encounter of Waste-pickers in Colombia, 2008

Overview of Legal Framework for Social Inclusion in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Raccoglitori di Residui; Una panoramica globale sul primo anello del circuito del riciclaggio (Waste pickers: a global view on the first step of the recycling chain)CWG-Reorient- Retos al Sur

Recovering resources, creating opportunities: Integrating the informal sector into solid waste management

Repensando a articulação entre catadores, gestão integrada e sustentável de resíduous sólidos e desenvolvimento

Este artigo intenta explorar alguns dos desafios, paradoxos e limites no processo de associação do lixo à cidadania, chamando particularmente...

Integrating the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management Systems – Basic Aspects and Experiences

Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

List of literature related to the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management

Other publications about solid waste management and the informal sector

Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...