Waste Pickers

VIDEO: Ivaneide Souza on Coaching

WIEGO’s Sonia Dias and Ivaneide Souza, of Redesol, discuss the importance of coaching for informal workers, especially women.  In Portuguese...

Gender and Waste Recycling Toolkit: Exercise 3 – Autonomy Tree

Exercise 3 – Autonomy TreeThis workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive...

Desenho do Projeto, Ferramentas e Recomendações – Livro 2

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

VIDEO: Mesa-debate “Clasificadores y derecho a la ciudad”

This video is in Spanish. Lucia Fernandez, Waste Picker Sector Advisor for WIEGO, provides an urban perspective on the displacement of waste...

VIDEO: Indira Explains How ID Cards Improve Waste Picker Work Conditions

Indira, a waste picker with Hasiru Dala in Bangalore, India explains how occupational identification cards have helped workers at the Expert...

VIDEO: Waste Narratives – To mark inclusion of Waste pickers and Informal Waste Dealers

To mark inclusion of Waste pickers and Informal Waste Dealers in the recently released Solid & Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016,...

VIDEO: The Warrior Within: Empowering Women Waste Pickers

The Gender and Waste Project has been an ongoing-platform for women waste pickers to voice their opinions and perspectives on gender inequalities,...

SAFM Radio Interview with Vanessa Pillay of WIEGO and South African Wastepicker Representatives

Vanessa Pillay of WIEGO and waste picker represenatives from Johannesburg, South Africa are interviewed on local radio to share their concerns...

WIEGO’s Position on Dump Closures

Livelihood plans must be an integral component of any dump closure process  Waste pickers around the globe contribute to a cleaner environment,...

SEWA’s Silent Eco Friend Film