Possibilities for a just transition of the informal waste sector (webinar)
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers participates in the webinar “Possibilities for a just transition of the informal waste sector” organized by UN-Habitat and the Norw...
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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Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2022 Global Waste Picker Day
This March 1st, 2022, 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...
Waste pickers’ delegation attend UNEA for the first time and demand to be included in negotiations of the international treaty on plastics
A new legally binding international treaty on plastic pollution will be discussed at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). Globalrec’s delegation of Waste picker re...
Call for Recognition of Waste-pickers in International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastics Pollution
This declaration was read by Soledad Mella, representative of the Global Alliance of Waste pickers and president of the Asociación Movimiento Nacional de Recicladores de Chile (AN...
Ground Score provides waste collection services for the unhoused community
Over the past year, Ground Score Association (Portland, Oregon, USA) has received multiple new contracts and grants to address two major waste issues affecting waste pickers during...
ANARCH addresses the implementation of the new packaging law
The new law is expected to become effective as of 2023. Read full document (in Spanish). During the year 2021, ANARCH proposed to make an analysis document regarding the implementa...
Regional assemblies to organize the national movement in Chile
Among other topics, the assemblies seek to build cooperatives and develop joint positions on issues such as the implementation of the Extended Producer Responsibility and Recycling...
The ANR continues to fight for the rights of waste pickers in Colombia
In Colombia, despite the fact that the organized waste pickers’ union won the recognition and remuneration of their work as a public service of waste or recycling before the ...
NASWON joins NATCO conference
Members of NASWON gathered in Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria, to participate in this year’s NATCO (Nigerian Artisans and Technician Conference 2021) It was a great day on Tuesday Dec...
Waste pickers demand expansion of the Bottle Bill in NYC
Informal recyclers and their allies gather outside New York City Hall to demand expansion of the state’s Bottle Bill. Josefa Marin, supported by the Canner Advocacy Task Forc...
Binners’ Project offers a new service: Waste Audits
Throughout the pandemic, Binners’ Project (Vancouver, Canada) has continued offering waste sorting services to building, residences, and events which provide stable and reliable ...
National mobilization seeks priority in vaccination for Catadores
In Brazil, a joint action of the National Movement of Waste Pickers in Brazil (MNCR) and the legal arms Ancat and Unicatadores have articulated the advancement of COVID-19 vaccinat...
Global Alliance of Waste Pickers highlights of 2021
The Global Alliance of Waste Picker highlights of 2021 are the following: Globalrec establishes a working group dedicated to understanding and developing resources for the role of ...
FACCyR presented at ILO
FACCyR was present at the International Labor Conference organized by ILO. Our colleague and general secretary of the Federación Argentina de Cartoneros, Carreros y Recicladores, ...
African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) Wins WWF’s Living Planet Award
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has named Johannesburg-based non-profit organisation African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) and acclaimed South African scientist Professor Bob Scho...
Jacquelina Flores Addresses the ILC Recurrent Discussion on Social Security Committee
For the first time in its history, the 109th International Labour Conference (ILC) is being held virtually due to restrictions and changes imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The it...
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...
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...