On April 9th, the organizations WIEGO, MNCR, NEPEM, INSEA hosted a meeting on gender and informal recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event marked the closure of an explorator...
Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) | Region Asia-Pacific | May 01, 2015
Background The Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW) is a national network coalition of membership based organizations working on organizing informal waste workers for ensuring the...
Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research & Information Group (ILRIG) | Region Africa | Apr 15, 2015
Many men, women and children from working class communities make a living through waste-picking by collecting, sorting, recycling, and selling materials that someone else has throw...
The landfill in the city of Estrutural, minutes outside the Brazilian capital and the National Congress, was the scene of another tragedy on April 2. Vanderlina da Silva Lopes, a w...