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Dry Waste Collection Centres in Bengaluru are a Good Start, Design Changes Need to Be Made to Make Them Function Better

Anjanee Patel, Ambrosie, Jaspreet Singh, Indha Mahoor, Nalini Shekar, Karthik Natarajan, Vishwanath C and Xiao-Dong Liu. | Region Asia | May 20, 2019

Bangalore based waste-pickers organization Hasiru Dala (India), along with researchers from an American university, undertook a research project to identify design flaws in existin...

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African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) marches for their rights

GlobalRec | Region Africa | May 02, 2019

African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) is a Johannesburg based organisation of informal reclaimers who collect recyclables from Johannesburg’s streets and landfills. There are...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2019

GlobalRec Mar 20, 2019

This past March 1st, 2019, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow recyclers who were murdered in Colombia 27 years ago. In their honor, this date became a global day in whic...

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The learners from Shillong in CIPET Guwahati, along with other students

Daughters & Sons of Shillong’s Waste Pickers Got Training and Salaried Jobs in Recycling Industry

Georgina Jarman Lamare & Kabir Arora Mar 04, 2019

The daughters and sons of waste-pickers from Shillong, a provincial capital city in the North Eastern State of India, Meghalaya, got placement after rigorous training in plastics m...

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All the Dry Waste Collection Centres in Bangalore should be Operated by the Waste-pickers

Hasiru Dala Feb 06, 2019

Waste-pickers have written to Municipal Commissioner of Bengaluru to issue all the Dry Waste Collection Centres to waste-pickers for operations and not just the current number of 3...

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Lanzamiento de la planta de madera plástica de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá

The Waste Pickers’ Association of Bogota Launches the Plastic Wood Plant

Federico Parra | Region Latin America | Jan 14, 2019

On Friday, December 14, 2018, in Bogota, the plastic wood processing plant of the Waste Pickers’ Association of Bogota was launched. This event is of special importance for all t...

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