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Get to know waste picker leaders who have actively participated in the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers process.

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News from Waste Pickers around the world

Organizing

Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association (Ghana) for Global Waste Pickers Day 2021

A Call for Intervention and Support for Scrap and Waste Workers in Nigeria

Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW
The Alliance of Indian Waste pickers (AIW) invites you to the National Consultation on Extended Producers Responsibility. in this webinar the panelists will include representatives of waste pickers and industry, who will be sharing their reflections on this document as well as providing recommendations and offering suggestions on the inclusion of waste-pickers and other informal waste collectors.

Second call towards the constitution of a GlobalRec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee

First Call Towards the Constitution of a Globalrec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee

Threats

Mbeubeuss: Declaration of the Waste Pickers Association on the occasion of May 1st

YoSoyLiliana: Condemnation of violence against a waste picker in Colombia

Waste pickers from São Caetano do Sul abandoned amid the crisis

Waste pickers in Chile and Madrid stand up for the Earth

Let waste pickers work in Porto Alegre

Publications

Video on global threats to waste pickers’ work
This video detects all the threats to the work of latent waste pickers around the world today. The threats are a constant in their work, but the video assumes that because the threats are global, the resistance and struggle against them must be equally global and in solidarity within the working class

International Live streaming: Waste Pickers Organization in the World

Waste Workers’ Safety during the COVID-19 pandemic (webinar)

Indonesian Waste-pickers in a Dire Situation due to the COVID-19 Lock-down
