Waste Pickers

Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

Trabajadores invisibles dentro del servicio de limpia de la CDMX

InFormal–Formal: Creating Opportunities for the Informal Waste Recycling Sector in Asia

The Cycle of Plastic Waste: An Analysis on the Informal Plastic Recovery System in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

 (Hindi) A summary based on the report by Koni Benson and Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) ...

Informal Waste-Pickers in Latin America: Sustainable and Equitable Solutions in the Dumps

Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...

Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in...

Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente,Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal (Sumário Executivo)

Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

Mujeres Recicladoras: Construyendo una Agenda de Genero en las Organizaciones de Recicladores

A pesar del aumento de estudios sobre residuos sólidos, aún existen pocas investigaciones que busquen comprender cómo las dinámicas de género,...