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Livelihoods September 12, 2019How One Brazilian City Used Theater and Song to Popularize Recycling – and the Poor Workers Behind It
Brazil has been a global trailblazer when it comes to integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems. But its progressive policies...
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Gender and Waste Project September 12, 2019Photo Essay: Inside Efforts to Strengthen Leadership among Women Waste Pickers
WIEGO’s Organizing and Representation Programme and Urban Policies Programme works with waste picker organizations in South Africa and Brazil...
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Livelihoods September 12, 2019Cuatro estrategias para integrar a los recicladores y recicladoras en las ciudades del futuro
En el Día Internacional de los Recicladores y Recicladoras, Sonia Dias, de WIEGO, nos relata las experiencias que han funcionado y los retos...
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Livelihoods September 12, 2019Reportaje fotográfico: Esfuerzos internos para fortalecer el liderazgo entre las mujeres recicladoras
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Livelihoods September 12, 2019Who really cares about our Earth? Neglecting waste pickers’ contributions, promoting huge business profits.
Things are not easy for those protecting the Earth.
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Climate Change and Just Transition September 12, 2019Planeta Verde: The Colombian Cooperative Revolutionizing Waste Picking
In celebration of International Cooperatives Day, we speak with Martha Elena Iglesias, a waste picker and the leader of Planeta Verde, a...
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Livelihoods September 12, 2019¿Nos importa realmente nuestra Tierra? Se descuidan las contribuciones de las recicladoras y los recicladores, y se fomentan enormes lucros empresariales.
por Lucía Fernández
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Climate Change and Just Transition September 12, 2019Planeta Verde: cooperativa colombiana revoluciona la recolección de residuos
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Livelihoods September 12, 2019Nuestro trabajo es un servicio público: Recicladores en Bogotá
Los recicladores de Bogotá en cabeza de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) han hecho historia desde 2011 al lograr que la Corte...
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Livelihoods September 12, 2019Audio: How Bangalore’s itinerant waste pickers transformed into “robust entrepreneurs”
WIEGO has a unique organizational structure — we are a network of membership-based organizations, researchers, and practitioners, all working...
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