Waste Pickers

ARB: Fighting for an Inclusive Model for Recycling in Bogota

The Bogotá success demonstrates that the inclusion of waste pickers within the waste management system is possible through continuous effort...

WASTE Bulletin March 2016

Newsletter from WASTE Advisers on Urban Environment and Development. Featured in this issue: – a new series on sustainable financing...

Ferramenta No 2: Consciência das Relações de Gênero – Atividade de Ping-pong

Da Teoria à Ação: Gênero e Reciclagem de Resíduos Um Kit de Ferramentas para Professores, Pesquisadores e Profissionais

Nohra Padilla, the Voice of Bogota’s Recycler at COP21

Nohra Padilla, a Colombian waste picker/recycler advocate and recipient of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Award, is interviewed by Cities...

Laura de RENAREC habla de la importancia de organizarse para lograr el reconocimiento

Laura Guanoluisa de la Red Nacional de Recicladores de Ecuador (RENAREC) habla de la importancia de los uniformes de los recicladores, el...

GAIA Fall 2016 Newsletter

Waste picker news from around the world in GAIA’s fall 2016 newsletter. Find additional information about GAIA here.

ILC, 102nd session 2013, fourth sitting

The text (English) and a recording (Spanish) of the speech by Nohra Padilla at the 2013 International Labour Conference are available on...

Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handiling Rules), 2000

This document outlines the rules that apply to every municipal authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation,,...

Trabajadores invisibles dentro del servicio de limpia de la Ciudad de México

Chintan: Counterbalance Video

Where waste picker Mohammad Nazir from Delhi explains how they earn less (because of less access to waste due to the new private company...