INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WASTE PICKERS

The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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From 28-30 November 2016, informal recyclers from Brazil hosted the international event Expocatadores in which they invited Latin American and European recyclers to join them in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the National Movement of Pickers of Recyclables (MNCR).

Here you can watch videos waste pickers from Nohra Padilla and Silvio Ruiz from Colombia, Samuel Samzao from France, Exequiel Estay from Chile, Sérgio Sanchez and Victor Carborral from Argentina talking about challenges and threats faced by these workers in their respective countries.