Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW
Check live in Facebook. The Alliance of Indian Waste pickers (AIW) invites you to the National Consultation on Extended Producers Responsibility. in this webinar the panelists will...
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
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Second call towards the constitution of a GlobalRec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee
On Monday, June 29th, 2020 the second online meeting for the constitution of the Global Advisory Committee took place with the participation of representatives from 15 countries. T...
First Call Towards the Constitution of a Globalrec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee
On Monday, June 15th, 2020 the first online meeting for the constitution of the Globalrec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee for the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers took place with t...
Sign petition: Demand the right to work and survival for waste reclaimers during COVID-19 in South Africa
This is a demand by African Reclaimers Organisation to the National Coronavirus Command Council. Support the African Reclaimers Organisation, a worker’s movement of over 3,700 re...
Red LACRE’s Letter to Latin American and Caribbean States
The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers (LACRE Network) is an organization of national movements of grassroots waste pickers in the continent, with delegates from...
Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the waste-pickers in the times of the pandemic
Introduction The COVID 19 Pandemic has forced governments across the globe to shut down their residents into lockdown. In India, the lockdown was announced on the evening of 21st m...
Empowering and equipping the waste workers in the Himalayan towns to fight against the pandemic
Waste workers are a big part of this front-line brigade who is facing the threat of exposure to health hazards, in the run to make sure that the city neighbourhoods are clean and h...
First ever MayDay Statement from the Global Informal Workers Movement
COVID-19 and the World’s Two Billion Informal Economy Workers A WIEGO Network Global Solidarity Platform May 1, 2020 Informal economy workers’ organizations across the global e...
Solidarity Campaigns to Collect Funds for Waste Pickers in Coronavirus Times, Donate!
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) we have compiled on the page of the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers the different initiatives and actions that different w...
Design considerations for Hasiru Dala’s Dry Waste Collection IMS
Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCC) in Bengaluru are a recent-ish (since 2013-14) development in waste-management efforts of the city civic body BBMP: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara P...
Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2020
This March 1st, 2020, waste pickers are paying 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 whi...
Ground Score, a new waste picker organization in the USA
A new waste picker association took root in the United States of America in 2019, and this year will be its first time celebrating International Waste Picker Day on March 1st. Port...
In Memoriam: Exequiel Estay Tapia
Today the wastepicker movement lost one of its strongest leaders, and certainly one of the most visible and well known recycler from Latinamerica, the Chilean Exequiel Estay Tapia....
Picking through the Memories of Women Wastepickers of Bengaluru
Five women gather in a room in the office of Hasiru Dala to talk of the life spent wastepicking. Chinnapillai (70), Sharada (60) and Aniyamma (58) have been at it for 45 years, Lak...
Panchkula’s Wastepickers Left Dumpsite and Now Do Composting
Last year in July, I received a phone call from Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Panchkula (a town in the North Indian province of Haryana). As much as I like...
Mangaloreans Initiate Removal of Plastic Waste from Their Coastline
When we think of marine/ocean plastic pollution, we think of now-famous images by western photographers – the seahorse coiled around a cotton bud, the turtle with a straw stu...
Waste Pickers’ voice heard at the UN- World Habitat Day 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 Al...
Big win for waste pickers in Paris, major lessons learned from the South: a global movement
AMELIOR, the Association of Waste Pickers in Paris, has just won a call for projects funded by Syctom, the largest European Union dedicated to the collection and treatment of ̶...
Gathering of waste pickers from Paris and New York
On September 26th, a workshop was held in New York. At the workshop, waste pickers from Sure We Can (SWC), and Samuel Le Coeur, delegate from Amelior, the association which holds b...
Over 2000 Urban Waste Pickers Join the Collective Market System in Buenos Aires
The collective market system was established some years ago. However, in March, over 2000 waste pickers from the ‘Amanecer de los Cartoneros’ Cooperative, in Buenos Aires, Arge...
