Movimento Nacional de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis (MNCR)

São Paulo, Brazil

Primary information

Year formed

2001

Language

Portuguese

Number of groups

600

Number of members

85,000

Type of members

Members are waste picker organizations

Occupation of members

Waste pickers

Type of Organization

Movement, Network of cooperatives

Organizational Reach

National

Workplace of members

Collection from companies, Door to door, Dumpsite, Landfill, Street

Organization Structure

Works from grassroots organizations: regional committees: and through other structures to the National commission

Objectives

Recognition of waste pickers, self-organization and self management, against privatization, independence, integration of solid waste management, mutual support and solidary, the right to work, the right to education, the right to child care for all, payment to waste pickers for collection of recyclable materials, control of the chain of materials recycled, social and economic empowerment of waste pickers, the right to education, day care centers for waste pickers and their families

Affiliations

Redlacre

Women composition

over 50% women

Social networking sites

Facebook
Twitter

Benefits

Services

Activities

Community sale of materials, Community storage of materials, New items made from collected materials, Special collections from large generators of waste

Treatmet of organic materials

Biogas, Composting, Pig farming

Complementary Information

Information source

WORD 17/7/2013, RedLacre 2012

Comments / Narrative

National Secretariat is in São Paulo. They are in 27 states, approximately 1000 cities, but aren’t sure of the exact statistic. The Association was founded in 2001.