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Category: Organizing

Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2018

GlobalRec | Region Global, Latin America | Mar 01, 2018

It is with great pleasure that we are sharing with all the recycling community and allies the differents campaigns and demonstrations taking place today march 1st, international wa...

Demands Solidarity

Goa Setting New Benchmarks for Waste Management

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Feb 27, 2018

Goa is a major tourist destination in India. Every year millions of tourists come down to the state. They eat, drink and party. All this generates waste. A substantial amount of wa...

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Waste pickers from Medellín will receive their first payment for recycling

Arreciclar | Region Latin America | Dec 20, 2017

The current national legislation in Colombia, which assures the recognition and remuneration of waste pickers as public service providers, has enabled waste picker organizations in...

Inclusive models

REDNICA Presents its Grassroots Development Model of Inclusive Recycling

REDNICA | Region Latin America | Dec 11, 2017

The Network of Nicaraguan Entrepreneurs of Recycling (REDNICA) promotes inclusive recycling in Nicaragua. It is seen as a development alternative, because it enables grassroots was...

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Rally Against Construction of 7 Waste Incineration Plants in Buenos Aires

FACyR - CTEP | Region Latin America | Dec 08, 2017

In the face of a project to build 7 waste incineration plants in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina, thousands of cartoneros (waste pickers) from the FACyR – CTEP (...

Incineration Rallies

Amelior becomes member of REFER (Francilian Reuse Network) and other updates

Association Amelior | Region Europe | Dec 07, 2017

Amelior (a Federation of independent waste pickers, second hand sellers and scrap dealers based in Paris, France) is always fighting hard for public recognition of our work and org...

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The Coffee Cup Revolution starts in Vancouver

Binners’ Project | Region North America | Nov 22, 2017

Every week, in Vancouver, Canada, 2.6 million coffee cups are sent to landfills instead of being recycled properly. On October 16, 2017 the Binners’ Project hosted its fourth ann...

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Waste pickers making Viva Bem Coop pretty

Felipe RT | Region Latin America | Nov 06, 2017

“Pimp Nossa Cooperativa” event took place in July 21th 2017 at the cooperative Cooper Viva Bem, São Paulo, Brazil. There, around 300 people participated, amongst them member...

Trainings

Waste Pickers March against displacement in Tshwane (South Africa)

SAWPA | Region Africa | Oct 30, 2017

In response to failure of the City of Tshwane (Gauteng, South Africa) to respond to waste pickers demands such as support for their livelihoods, and failure to employ 261 waste pic...

Rallies

Rallies for the rights of Waste Pickers in Colombia

GlobalRec | Region Latin America | Oct 23, 2017

This past Thursday, October 19th 2017, there were big rallies in various cities in Colombia for the protection of the rights of Waste pickers that are under threat. We’ve col...

Rallies

Remembering Reuben – Waste Picker Leader Murdered Outside Central Johannesburg

GlobalRec | Region Africa | Oct 12, 2017

Reuben Sandile Oupa Mbambisa, a 52-year-old waste picker/reclaimer and active member of the Johannesburg Reclaimers Committee, was brutally murdered in the early hours of September...

Solidarity

Waste Pickers from 3 Continents Exchange Experiences and Knowledge in South Africa

Adapted from SAWPA/groundWork | Region Africa | Sep 20, 2017

In August 2017, waste picker leaders from Brazil and India traveled to South Africa for an international exchange hosted by the South African Waste Pickers Association (SAWPA) and ...

Trainings

Municipality of Leme is Forced to Regularize Selective Collection after Judicial Decision

MNCR | Region Latin America | Jul 29, 2017

As a result of mobilizations by the MNCR, the Anastacia Network and the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP-SP), a judicial decision ruled that the Municipality of Leme should a...

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MNCR National Struggle Day

MNCR | Region Latin America | Jul 28, 2017

It was on June 7, 2001 that three thousand people took to the streets of the Esplanada dos Ministérios in Brasilia to claim their rights as collectors of recyclable materials. It ...

Rallies

Tent of Cartoneros´ dignity in Rosario

FACyR | Region Latin America | Jul 22, 2017

The Federación Argentina de Cartoneros, Carreros y Recicladores – CTEP placed the Tent of Cartonero´s Dignity in Plaza 25 de Mayo in Rosario. The measure will last from Jun...

Demands

Rednica plans to organize 15 new cooperatives of grassroots recyclers in Nicaragua

Rednica | Region Latin America | Jul 21, 2017

The demand for actions to manage the large quantities of garbage produced by urban centers and the search for economic alternatives of families that have been for years dedicated t...

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National Pride: The Valoristes Cooperative celebrates a social and ecological St. Jean Day

Les Valoristes | Region North America | Jul 20, 2017

The Quebec National Holiday, St. Jean Baptiste Day (June 19th), is a time of festivities that comes with a lot of consumption outside the home. To address this ecological issue, an...

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Reclaimers of the City of Joburg marched to protest a new source segregation program

GlobalRec | Region Africa | Jul 19, 2017

Reclaimers (waste pickers) from 7 regions of the City of Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa) marched to protest a new source segregation program which could threaten their liveliho...

Rallies

Amelior opens cooperative shop and more in Paris

Association Amelior | Region Europe | Jul 17, 2017

On July 2nd, the Association of Individual and Organized Local Economic Recycling (AMELIOR) hosted the grand opening of its cooperative shop, “Parterre des biffinEs”. Featuring...

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Diary of Summer Camp with Children of Wastepickers

Priyanka Sacheti | Region Asia | Jul 05, 2017

I got to learn about Hasiru Dala when I started volunteering with Buguri a couple of months after moving to Bangalore in January this year. Having volunteered with a community li...

Child labor and education

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