Organizing – Global Alliance of Waste Pickers

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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 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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