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    The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

    This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...

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    Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers

    Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...

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  • Journal Articles

    Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases

    Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...

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  • Journal Articles

    An analytical framework and tool (‘InteRa’) for integrating the informal recycling sector in waste and resource management systems in developing countries

    Abstract: In low- and middle-income developing countries, the informal (collection and) recycling sector (here abbreviated IRS) is an important,...

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    Résumé des conclusions principals – La coopération entre les travailleurs de l’économie informelle: Travailleurs à domicile et récupérateurs de matériaux

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    Mainstreaming Waste Pickers and the Informal Recycling Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste

    Handling and Management Rules 2000, A Discussion Paper

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    A Paper Life: Belgrade’s Roma in the Underworld of Waste Scavenging and Recycling

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  • Research Reports

    Organizando nas Ruas: Um estudo dos Catadores de recicláveis nas ruas da Cidade do Cabo

    Um resumo baseado no relatório de Koni Benson e Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, (ILRIG) – Grupo Internacional de Informação e Pesquisa de Trabalho

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil

    The book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil (waste pickers and street vendors at Porto...

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  • Journal Articles

    Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground

    While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult...

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