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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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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2019

GlobalRec | Region Global, Latin America, North America | Mar 20, 2019

This past March 1st, 2019, waste pickers paid 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 whic...

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Homes after the fire in Patil Estate, Pune (India)

Indian waste pickers in Pune lose homes in massive fire

SWaCH | Region Asia | Nov 28, 2018

Many members of one of the world’s largest waste picker organizations lost their homes to a massive fire in Pune, India. Fire is a major threat to waste pickers around the wo...

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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...

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An Evening of Celebration and Solidarities with Bicycle Dreaming

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | May 25, 2016

Organized by Alliance of Indian Wastepickers in Collaboration with India Habitat Center Alliance of Indian Wastepickers is happy to invite you for ‘Waste Narratives’ being orga...

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PIMPEX and Sure We Can: visibility for NYC canners

Pimpex | Region North America | Apr 11, 2016

Who are the canners The canners of NYC are autonomous workers who earn a living by collecting cans and bottles to be recycled. Through their selective collection activity they grea...

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March 1st, no borders for those who fight!

FACyR, ARB, RENARC, UCRUS, Sure We Can, Amelior | Region Global | Mar 01, 2016

Today, March 1, we commemorate International Waste Pickers’ Day in remembrance of our compañeros who were brutally assassinated in the Universidad Libre de Barranquilla (Colombi...

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The Federation of Waste Pickers at the World Meeting of Popular Movements

FACyR | Region Latin America | Oct 26, 2015

The 9th of July took place the second Meeting of Popular Movements at the Coliseo Municipal de Santa Rosita, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. With the assistance of thousands of delegates from...

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Exploring Nayandahalli as an Ecosystem Where Waste is Transformed in Resource

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Aug 26, 2015

Notes from Nayandahalli ‘Cities are engines of growth’ is an old cliché statement. For economic growth and well being of mankind they consume the resources sourced from farawa...

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The biffins, in solidarity at the World Meeting of Popular Movements

Asso Amelior | Region Europe | Feb 12, 2015

On October 27th to 29th, 2014, on the initiative of the Pontifical Council and the Justice and Peace organization, the first World Meeting of Popular Movements was held in Rome and...

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Waste pickers in Argentina unionize to defend their livelihoods

Federación Argentina de Cartoneros y Recicladores (FACYR) | Region Latin America | Jan 28, 2015

The waste pickers of Salta, Argentina, many of whom collect recyclables using traditional, horse-drawn carts, decided to join the Federation of Waste Pickers of Argentina and the F...

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A waste picker from Pune shared her struggle with Pope Francis

KKPKP | Region India | Oct 29, 2014

“Hum apna haq mangte, nahi kisi se bheek mangte”, said Rebecca Kedari Thomas, a KKPKP waste picker, proudly, at the “World Meeting of Popular Movements” held in the Vatican...

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Canadian waste pickers recycled 150,000 containers!

Coop Les Valoristes | Region North America | Oct 17, 2014

We thought of celebrating after recycling 120,000 containers but then we surpassed that last week! The success of the temporary recycling shed belonging to the Valoristes’ cooperative in Quebec confirms the need for permanent recycling sheds like the ones that exist across most of Canada.

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