Organizing – Global Alliance of Waste Pickers

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Issue Series 1 Extended Producers Responsibility and Inclusion: Brazil’s Extended Producer Responsibility and its Interface with Waste Pickers

Sonia Dias | Region Asia | Apr 09, 2021

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...

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When the Minister read postcards written by waste pickers’ children

Aditya Vyas & Shrenik Mutha | Region Asia | Apr 02, 2021

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...

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Seven Reasons Why Decentralized Waste Management is Best for Emerging Economies

Andrew Almack | Region Asia | Apr 02, 2021

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...

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Reflections on EPR-based Systems Targeting Multi-Layered Plastics

Lubna Anantakrishnan | Region Asia | Mar 29, 2021

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 ...

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Waste pickers and workers in the informal waste industry: The Pillars of Extended Producers Responsibility

Nalini Shekar and Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Mar 24, 2021

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 ...

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Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2021 Global Waste Picker Day

GlobalRec | Region Global | Mar 16, 2021

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...

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Women waste-pickers in Mussourie, a town in Himalayas, form a Self Help Group with the support of Hilldaari

Team Hilldaari Mar 08, 2021

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...

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Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association (Ghana) for Global Waste Pickers Day 2021

Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association | Region Africa | Mar 01, 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...

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A Call for Intervention and Support for Scrap and Waste Workers in Nigeria

NUSWON | Region Africa | Nov 20, 2020

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...

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Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the waste-pickers in the times of the pandemic

Junaid ul Shafi | Region Asia | May 21, 2020

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...

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Empowering and equipping the waste workers in the Himalayan towns to fight against the pandemic

Team Hilldaari | Region Asia | May 16, 2020

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...

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First ever MayDay Statement from the Global Informal Workers Movement

GlobalRec | Region Global | May 01, 2020

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...

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Solidarity Campaigns to Collect Funds for Waste Pickers in Coronavirus Times, Donate!

GlobalRec | Region Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Latin America | Apr 16, 2020

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...

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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 Global | 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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