Waste Pickers

Trabajadores invisibles dentro del servicio de limpia de la CDMX

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...

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,...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya