Waste Pickers

Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

First Take: Waste – Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America)

Waste—its generation, collection and disposal—is a major global challenge in the 21st century. This is the lead article of the special issue...

Gênero e Meio Ambiente: A dupla Jornada de Injustiça Ambiental em uma Cooperativa de Mulheres de Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis.

em português   ABSTRACTS:   English VALLIN, Isabella de Carvalho. Gender and Environment: the double burden of environmental injustice in...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

Recycling Livelihoods – Integration of the Informal Recycling Sector in Solid Waste Management in India

Study prepared for GTZ’s sector project “Promotion of Concepts for Pro-Poor and Environmentally Friendly Closed-Loop Approaches in Solid...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries

S’organiser dans la rue: une étude des récupérateurs de rue à Cape Town

Un sommaire tiré du rapport de Koni Benson et de Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)

Climate Change and Informal Recycling: An NGO and a Private Sector Partnership in Bogotá

This chapter illuminates the crucial and often unrecognized role that developing world informal recyclers play in reducing the risks associated...

Mapping the Invisible and Real ‘African’ Economy: Urban E-waste CircuitryUrban Geography