GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF WASTE PICKERS
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
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Life and Voices of 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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News from Waste Pickers around the world


Organizing

Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW

| Region | Jul 23, 2020

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.

Inclusive models

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

| Region | Jul 12, 2020
On Monday, June 29th, 2020 the second online meeting for the constitution of the Global Advisory Committee took place with the participation of representatives from 15 countries. T...
Events Solidarity Threats

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

| Region | Jun 27, 2020
On Monday, June 15th, 2020 the first online meeting for the constitution of the Globalrec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee for the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers took place with t...
Events Solidarity

Sign petition: Demand the right to work and survival for waste reclaimers during COVID-19 in South Africa

| Region | Jun 01, 2020
This is a demand by African Reclaimers Organisation to the National Coronavirus Command Council. Support the African Reclaimers Organisation, a worker’s movement of over 3,700 re...
Demands

Red LACRE’s Letter to Latin American and Caribbean States

Red LACRE | Region | May 25, 2020
The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers (LACRE Network) is an organization of national movements of grassroots waste pickers in the continent, with delegates from...
Demands


Threats

YoSoyLiliana: Condemnation of violence against a waste picker in Colombia

Planeta Verde | Region | Oct 15, 2020
While Liliana Ospina Corrales, a waste picker by trade from the Planeta Verde Cooperative, was making her route to provide waste recovery public services, the neighbours and the co...
Denunciations

Waste pickers from São Caetano do Sul abandoned amid the crisis

MNCR e Adalberto Azevedo | Region | Oct 14, 2020
On June 8, 2020, amid the worst sanitary, economic and humanitarian crisis of the new millennium, the autarchy responsible for waste management in the municipality of São Caetano ...
Denunciations

Waste pickers in Chile and Madrid stand up for the Earth

| Region , | Oct 13, 2020
Following its cancellation in Chile, the COP25 was held at its new location in Madrid, and both waste pickers and members of the WIEGO Network joined the activists at events simult...
Climate Change

Let waste pickers work in Porto Alegre

Alex Cardoso (MNCR) | Region | Oct 08, 2020
Immediate repeal of the Melo Law. Right in the middle of the pandemic, the Melo Law, named after the former councillor and current candidate to mayor of Porto Alegre, known as the ...
Denunciations

We repudiate the abuse of Lebanon’s waste pickers!

GlobalRec Ad Hoc Committee | Region , | Aug 28, 2020

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.

Denunciations


Publications

Video on global threats to waste pickers’ work

| Region | Sep 21, 2020

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

Publications Videos

International Live streaming: Waste Pickers Organization in the World

| Region | May 20, 2020
The National movement of Brazilian Waste Pickers (MNCR), together with the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, will bring together waste pickers from around the world to discuss stra...
Videos

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

| Region | Apr 28, 2020
The video of the webinar is available in YouTube. On Thursday April 30th, 2020, at 15:00h CEST the webinar Waste Workers’ safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by UN...
Reports
Indonesian Waste-pickers Union (IPI, http://www.si-ipi.com/) President, Prispolly Lengkong gives update of waste-pickers during COVID-19 lockdown.

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

| Region | Apr 27, 2020
World over the countries have enforced lockdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. This has created a lot of problems for the waste-pickers and other informal waste collect...
Reports

Watch the feature film “Waste Picking Stories”

Setor de Comunicação MNCR | Region | Jan 16, 2019
The feature film “Waste Picking Stories” (Catadores de História) directed by filmmaker Tania Quaresma was released on online platforms on December 13, 2018. It receive...
Videos
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