Waste Pickers

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

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....

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...

Waste and Citizenship Forums – Achievements and Limitations

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Using the Law

The Economics of the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management

Based on information from: Scheinberg, A., M. Simpson, Y. Gupt et al. (2010): Economic Aspects of the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management....

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

This paper analyzes the national, regional and local budgeting allocations for programmes and services targeting (directly or indirectly)...

World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

Garbage, Industry, and the ‘Vultures’ of Cali, Colombia