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
Supported by Logo WIEGO

Region

Country Mexico

November 09, 2019

Translated by Abrapalabra Co-op


Abel Balderas at the round table in the World Habitat Day held in Mexico.

Abel Balderas at the round table in the World Habitat Day held in Mexico.

On account of the World Habitat Day held by the United Nations last October 7th, 2019, Abel Balderas Ramirez was invited, on behalf of the waste pickers’ sector and the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, to take part of the round table “The Informal Waste Economy and Migration”. The following speakers were also members of the panel: Elkin Velásquez (UN-Habitat Mexico/LAC); Thiago Mundano (Cataki); Tania Espinosa (WIEGO) and Vidal Llerenas (Azcapotzalco’s Mayor). Abel Balderas Ramirez works as waste picker and he presided over the Industrializable Solid Waste Workers’ Association called Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, a workers’ association that gathers people who work at an open dumping site, which was created 26 years ago in the district of Dolores Hidalgo, State of Guanajuato, Mexico.