Waste Pickers

SEWA Rashtriya Patrika – April 2016

This is the first issue of “SEWA Rashtriya Patrika”, SEWA’s Mouthpiece integrating women workers in national development. The...

Executive Summary: Selective Waste Management and Waste Pickers’ Organizations: Indicators and Sustainability Indices

This is a 5-page executive summary of a 59-page research guide (in Portuguese), Gestão da coleta seletiva e de organizações de catadores:...

La justicia en la basura

Este blog fue escrito por Tania Espinosa Sánchez, Coordinadora para Latinoamérica del Programa de Leyes de WIEGO, y Consejera de la Comisión...

VIDEO: Victor Carvajal from Argentina

In Spanish with English subtitles

No hay fronteras para los que luchan. Septiembre 2016-abril 2017

Boletín de la Alianza Global de Recicladores, Septiembre 2016-abril 2017   Read the newsletter in English. Leer el boletín en Español. Leia...

VIDEO: Right to the City and Privatization

The privatization of waste management and introduction of municipal policies which restrict access to waste can have a negative impact on...

Mbeubeuss : Les femmes dans la récupération de déchets

Depuis son ouverture sur le site de Malika début des années 70 dans la banlieue dakaroise à Malika, la décharge de Mbeubeuss a fait l’objet...

Informal Workers in Focus Fact Sheet Collection

Contains fact sheets on Street Vendors, Waste Collectors, and Home-based Workers (also available separately)

GreenHub

From the website: The Green Hub at MIT is a collaborative project of MIT’s CoLab, Oxfam Great Britain (GB), and the Presencing Institute....

Nohra Padilla, Third Generation Recycler and Advocate for Organizing the Working Poor