On this International Workers’ Day, we, the waste pickers – who collect and sort recyclable materials from the waste generated by households, businesses, and industries –...
Owusu Boampong and Johnson Doe | Region Africa | Apr 04, 2023
On August 16, 2019 the Kpone engineered landfill (in Accra, Ghana) site was in flames and about 300 waste pickers had to be relocated to an abandoned dumpsite nearby. The workers...
Today we join the world in commemorating International Waste Pickers Day by marching with waste pickers from 19 countries in Dandora (Nairobi) Kenya. We fight, we commemorate and...
Just Transition Initiative builds on the Group of Friends of Waste-pickers launched a day before the INC began. “Kenya would like to take this opportune moment to inform the plen...