Waste Picking in Africa – Volume 1.1 September 2011
Download PDF of the September 2011 Africa newsletter. India’s waste pickers – I saw a miracle Mmapula Baloyi is not looking like a waste picker today. She is smartly dresse...
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Posts by Demetria
India’s waste pickers – I saw a miracle
Mmapula Baloyi is not looking like a waste picker today. She is smartly dressed as she smilingly meets us inside the ‘stop nonsense wall’ that surrounds Temba, the site where s...
Same issues world over
The AIW (Indian Alliance of Waste Pickers) workshop on Landfill Workers Struggles and Strategies held in June this year in Mumbai with a view to understanding the situation of wast...
Global Waste Picker events calendar
Coordination Meeting MNCR and LAWPN, Sao Paulo-Brasil, end August Some Latin American leaders, part of the Latin American Wastepicker Network along with Wiego Regional Coordinator ...
Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies to Attend 2nd Franco-Brazilian "Waste and Citizenship Week"
France Libertés in coordination with the local authority of Plaine Commune (northern suburb of Paris) will host the 2nd Franco-Brazilian “Waste and Citizenship Week” ...
Serie PROhumana: Reciclaje y las 3 R
Video sobre el reciclaje con Exequiel Estay de MNRCh / Red Latinoamericana.
lanacion.cl: Recicladores, fundamentales en la mitigación del cambio climático
lanacion.cl: Recicladores, fundamentales en la mitigación del cambio climático por Nancy Arancibia/Nación.cl Aportan el 60% del reciclaje nacional y la misma cifra a nivel mund...
Dia Mundial del Reciclador
Waste Pickers Across Latin America Unite with the Waste Pickers of Colombia to Recognize “Dia Mundial del Reciclador” Thousands of waste pickers across Latin America will demon...
New Plastics Law for India
India has introduced a new law on plastic waste. The new law incorporates Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastics waste management and mentions the inclusion of waste p...
Two Recent New York Time Articles on Waste Pickers
The New York Times has published two excellent articles recently on waste pickers and their contribution to the environment and society. Upon a Hill of Scraps: Surviving on Scaveng...
Expocatador 2010 Highlights
Approximately 3,000 waste pickers attended Expocatador 2010. Participants included LAWPN (Latin American Waste Picker Network) representatives; Simon Mbata from South Africa; B...
KKPKP Documentary “Full Circle” now available online
View this movie at cultureunplugged.com Full Circle is a short documentary about KKPKP (trade union of waste pickers) and its work. The documentary follows the women of KKPKP, an...
The Tangled Web of Waste
Published in ECO ISSUE NO 10 VOLUME CXXVII December 9th, 2010 Once again, the United Nations Environment Programme has done its homework in Cancun. The newly published study Waste ...
Sushila Speaks
Sushila Sable has represented waste pickers at two international climate conferences – in Copenhagen in December 2009 and in Tianjin China in October 2010. In this post writt...
Recyclers Tout Benefits of Their Trade at Cancún Summit
Excerpt from IPS article on waste pickers at COP 16 Recyclers Tout Benefits of Their Trade at Cancún Summit By Emilio Godoy Ezequiel Estay began collecting glass bottles in 1991 a...
La Alianza se encuentra con pepenadores en México
En el marco de las actividades que la Alianza Global de Recicladores y Aliados se encuentra realizando en la Conferencia de las Partes en Cancún, ayer 4 de diciembre hicimos un re...
Support to the delegation in Cancun from Madalena Duarte
Sou Madalena Duarte cooperada da COOPERT e liderança do MNCR e da Rede Latina de Catadores. Hoje aqui no Brasil hoje os catadores estão passando por um grande desafio também que...