Victory for Reclaimers and Residents in Johannesburg!
The City of Johannesburg has just announced the withdrawal of the R50 recycling fee following the African Reclaimers Organization petition which had over 3600 signatures and demand...
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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May Day: Investments in social and labour protections needed for economic recovery
Organizations representing over 2.1 million informal workers from around the world call on governments to accelerate investments in worker protections as a central component of eco...
Issue Series 1 Extended Producers Responsibility and Inclusion: Brazil’s Extended Producer Responsibility and its Interface with Waste Pickers
The recycling industry since its early beginning had always relied on the work carried out by informal recycling workers in Brazil, the “catadores de materiais recicláveis” (p...
When the Minister read postcards written by waste pickers’ children
Waste pickers and other informal sector waste workers make a living collecting, sorting, recycling, and selling materials that others throw away. They contribute to local economies...
Seven Reasons Why Decentralized Waste Management is Best for Emerging Economies
The global waste crisis is rapidly growing. With waste generation estimated to increase to 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050, the effectiveness of systems that manage this waste has becom...
Reflections on EPR-based Systems Targeting Multi-Layered Plastics
Lubna Anantakrishnan The impending roll-out of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Framework seems, at face value, to be a positive step towards tackling the global plastic ...
Waste pickers and workers in the informal waste industry: The Pillars of Extended Producers Responsibility
Nalini Shekar and Kabir Arora A decade ago, the term ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ (EPR) was either found in the textbooks of Environment Sciences or in the forgotten ...
Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2021 Global Waste Picker Day
This March 1st, 2021, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow waste pickers who were murdered in Colombia in 1992. In their honor, this date became a global day in which recy...
Women waste-pickers in Mussourie, a town in Himalayas, form a Self Help Group with the support of Hilldaari
A typical day of Rachna Devi, a 22-year-old waste picker in Mussoorie, a hill station in the Garhwal Himalayan range, begins with looking after her family of six, doing household c...
Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association (Ghana) for Global Waste Pickers Day 2021
COMMEMORATION OF INTERNATIONAL WASTE PICKERS DAY. 1st March 2021 On the occasion of the 29th commemoration of International Waste Picker’s Day, the Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers A...
A Call for Intervention and Support for Scrap and Waste Workers in Nigeria
The National Union of Scrap and Waste Workers of Nigeria (NUSWON); an affiliate of The Federation of Informal Workers’ Organizations of Nigeria (FIWON) is a platform that rep...
Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW
The Alliance of Indian Waste pickers (AIW) invites you to the National Consultation on Extended Producers Responsibility. in this webinar the panelists will include representatives of waste pickers and industry, who will be sharing their reflections on this document as well as providing recommendations and offering suggestions on the inclusion of waste-pickers and other informal waste collectors.
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...