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...
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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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 ...
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...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
Dry Waste Collection Centres in Bengaluru are a Good Start, Design Changes Need to Be Made to Make Them Function Better
Bangalore based waste-pickers organization Hasiru Dala (India), along with researchers from an American university, undertook a research project to identify design flaws in existin...
Argentina: FACCyR Implements an Inclusive Recycling System in the city of Zárate
After several months of discussions among recyclers’ cooperatives of Zárate (Argentina), which take part of FACCyR – CTEP, they got the local deliberative Council to pass a bi...
Waste Management in the Industrial Township of Bengaluru
Every neighbourhood in Bengaluru (India) is trying its best to manage its own waste. They in their own way are setting precedents. Earlier, we read about HSR Layout and the adventu...
Waste-pickers Demand Inclusion in Karnataka’s Waste Management By-laws
The draft by-laws put out by Directorate of Municipal Administration Karnataka has omitted discussion on waste-pickers. “We are the people in the city who have been doing this (w...
Waste pickers in Brazil fight for their workplace
Workers of a waste pickers’ cooperative were violently evicted in Sao Paulo. Legal steps were taken by MNCR to allow workers recover their equipment and return to their workplace...
Waste-pickers Demand Inclusion in Social Welfare Measures, Access to Housing and Dignity
Memorandum submitted to Mr. U.T. Khader, Minister of Urban Development & Housing, Karnataka; Mr. R. Sampath Raj, Mayor of Bengaluru; Ms. Sowmya Reddy, Member of Legislat...
Swachh Mission: GVMC to Deploy Rag Pickers
Vishakhapatnam is the second city in Andhra Pradesh to issue occupational identity cards of wastepickers. Issuance of occupational identity cards is a long demand of Alliance of In...
2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers in India
2016 has been quite a remarkable year and will be remembered as a benchmark period in the struggle of wastepickers for recognition. This year for the first time, updated solid and ...
Vijaywada Municipal Corporation Issues Occupational Identity Cards to Wastepickers
Indore, Mysuru, Panvel and Tumakuru are other four cities which have issued ID cards to wastepickers this year. Vijaywada Municipal Corporation issued occupational identity cards (...
Indore Municipal Corporation Issues Occupational Identity Cards to Wastepickers
Indore Municipal Corporation issued occupational identity cards to 25o wastepickers associated with Jan Vikas Society. The cards were distributed by Ms. Malini Gaur, Mayor of Indor...