I Belong Here: a Vancouver binner shares his struggle
Meet Michael Leland, a local binner (aka “waste picker”) in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. He shares his past, how he became a binner, and the challenges he must face on a...
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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Ekatina, indigenous waste pickers in Amazonas
Ricardo Abussafy de Souza is a post-doctoral student in the Graduate Studies Program in Social Sciences at PUC-SP (PEPG-CSO / PUC-SP). He participates in the Ecopolitics Project: p...
Of cess and cesspools: How to use the funds collected in the name of Swachh Bharat
We’re now paying a Swachh Bharat Cess, as a result of which the service tax rates have gone up from 14% to 14.5%. The question everyone is asking is: How should these funds be sp...
Rechristening Dharavi from Slum to Industrial Zone
“Mumbai is a crowd. Dharavi, with people oozing out of every crack and countless quarters of artisans and small industries, is often referred to as the throbbing heart of the cit...
Solidarity Agreement between Waste Pickers and Concierges
The Single Trade Union for Concierges (SUTERH, by its initials in Spanish) and the Buenos Aires branch of the Argentine Federation of Waste Pickers (FACyR-CTEP by its initials in S...
Scenes from the heart of recycling: a series
In his book Invisible Cities, Itálo Calvino writes of the imaginary city of Ândria and the character virtues of its inhabitants that are worth mentioning: “…self-confiden...
“I Belong Here”: a video about the Binners’ Project
“I Belong Here”: a video about the Binners’ Project of Vancouver, Canada.
Story of Nayandahalli is the Story of Urban Nomads
Notes from Nayandahalli Historians have always been interested in cities and their resource inflows. They rarely ventured out from their comfort zones and talked about outflows. Ro...
In the Fringes of Urban Economy
“Nayandahalli, 25 years back was jungle. There was no electricity, water, or roads. On a vacant plot, the landlord gave us permission, and we put up a hut, as my husband found ...
Nelamangala Municipal Council Unanimously Passes Resolution for Inclusion of Wastepickers
Last week, Nelamangala Town Municipal Council general body unanimously passed a resolution for inclusion of wastepickers in waste management. Nelamangala is a small town, located i...
Thoughts on the Process of Waste Work: Value and Precarity in Nayandahalli’s Recycling Economy
Notes from Nayandahalli Shreyas Sreenath* “Often, in the red light of a street-lamp Of which the wind whips the flame and worries the glass, In the heart of some old suburb, mudd...
SWaCH & Pune Municipal Corporation Set a New Precedent for Wastepickers’ Integration
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SWaCH, a waste pickers’ cooperative for door to door collection in Maharashtra (India) has been renewed by General Body of Pune Mun...
Waste pickers are essential to successful, sustainable waste management
Safai Sena, a registered group of over 12,000 wastepickers, doorstep waste collectors, itinerant and other small buyers, small junk dealers, and other types of recyclers have sent ...
Towards a solid organization of waste pickers in Sierra Leone
Aaron A Boima is an informal trader in Freetown, and the Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Traders Union (SLeTU). He is also the Co-ordinator of eight informal economy workers...
Pietermaritzburg drops the ball on sustainable jobs initiative
Fifteen waste recyclers brought a municipal waste management meeting to an hour-long standstill last Thursday at the Harry Gwala Stadium. Open to everyone residing within the uMgun...
An interview with Thulisiwe Khumalo, woman waste picker and leader
Thulisiwe started working on a dumpsite five years ago for Wetland Recycling a company owned by a white man. However, in 2013 after three years of being subjected to irregular wage...
Towards Enforcement of Court Order 275 of 2011
From the video series “Chronicles of a Fight for Inclusion”, which deals with the struggles of waste pickers in Colombia, comes “Towards Enforcement of Court Order 275 of 201...
First Popular Training for Waste Pickers, Cart Drivers and Recyclers from Across Argentina
From January 23rd until February 1st, 2015, the Argentine Federation of Waste Pickers (FACyR – CTEP for its acronym in Spanish) conducted its First Popular Training for waste...
A study about waste pickers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Abstract Waste recycling in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is not spearheaded by any government, private or civil society initiative but rather by the efforts of an informal army of self-...
Waste pickers and allies host event to mark closure of gender and recycling project
On April 9th, the organizations WIEGO, MNCR, NEPEM, INSEA hosted a meeting on gender and informal recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event marked the closure of an explorator...