WASTE PICKERS
Life & Voices
Get to know waste picker leaders who have actively participated in the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers process.
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Provisional list of hundreds of waste pickers’ groups around the globe.
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News from Waste Pickers around the world
Organizing
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
Sign petition: Demand the right to work and survival for waste reclaimers during COVID-19 in South Africa
Red LACRE’s Letter to Latin American and Caribbean States
Threats
We repudiate the abuse of Lebanon’s waste pickers!
RECYCLERS IN LEBANON ARE NOT DISPOSABLE!
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers stands in solidarity with fellow recyclers in Lebanon in these difficult times.
The explosion in Beirut exposed them to worse conditions of vulnerability, abandonment and more abuse than they had been suffering since the beginning of the pandemic. Especially to migrant workers.
We denounce the failure of the multinational company RAMCO to pay the nearly 200 recyclers, we call for their prompt repatriation for the ones who wish to be repatriated to the embassies of Bangladesh, Indonesia and Egypt, and advocate for a better recovery of recyclers infected with COVID 19.
Second call towards the constitution of a GlobalRec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee
Two waste pickers imprisoned and denied access to medicines and food in South Africa
Post- COVID 19 lockdown forecast for the informal recycling sector and suggestive interventions to help in the long term
Suggestions for being considerate to the needs of migrant workers, single women, children and the aged in the COVID 19 relief operations
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
