Organizing – Global Alliance of Waste Pickers

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Design considerations for Hasiru Dala’s Dry Waste Collection IMS

Charles John Mar 19, 2020

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...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2020

GlobalRec | Region Africa, Europe, Global, Latin America, North America | Feb 29, 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...

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Picking through the Memories of Women Wastepickers of Bengaluru

Madhuri Kamat | Region Asia | Dec 26, 2019

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...

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Panchkula’s Wastepickers Left Dumpsite and Now Do Composting

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 29, 2019

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...

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Mangaloreans Initiate Removal of Plastic Waste from Their Coastline

Rohini Malur | Region Asia | Nov 26, 2019

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...

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The Third Zero Waste Meeting Ecuador 2019 was Held in Quito

GlobalRec | Region Latin America | Oct 19, 2019

The Third Zero Waste Meeting Ecuador 2019 was held at Simon Bolivar Andean University, in Quito, Ecuador, on September 4 and 5. Among the meeting’s participants were scholars, lo...

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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 | Region Global, Latin America, North America | 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...

Demands Solidarity

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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