Publications – Global Alliance of Waste Pickers

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International Live streaming: Waste Pickers Organization in the World

GlobalRec | Region Global | May 20, 2020

The National movement of Brazilian Waste Pickers (MNCR), together with the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, will bring together waste pickers from around the world to discuss stra...

Videos

Waste Workers’ Safety during the COVID-19 pandemic (webinar)

GlobalRec | Region Global | Apr 28, 2020

The video of the webinar is available in YouTube. On Thursday April 30th, 2020, at 15:00h CEST the webinar Waste Workers’ safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by UN...

Reports

Indonesian Waste-pickers Union (IPI, http://www.si-ipi.com/) President, Prispolly Lengkong gives update of waste-pickers during COVID-19 lockdown.

Indonesian Waste-pickers in a Dire Situation due to the COVID-19 Lock-down

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Apr 27, 2020

World over the countries have enforced lockdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. This has created a lot of problems for the waste-pickers and other informal waste collect...

Reports

An interview with Marleninha, Coordinator of ASMAC

Gilberto Chagas | Region Latin America | Apr 28, 2017

Marlene Lourenço Perreira (Marleninha) Born in 1953 in Pescador, Brazil, Marlene comes from a big family: she has 10 siblings, 7 women and 3 men. All of them are alive – a b...

Interviews

Lucilene Nogueira: the lifestory of a brave waste picker

Gilberto Chagas | Region Latin America | Apr 24, 2017

Lucilene Lorentino Santos Nogueira Lucilene was born in 1969 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her parents work in the old dumpsite of Nova Granada in the outskirts of the city. They woul...

Interviews

Listen to the voices of Waste pickers at Expocatadores 2016

Sonia Maria Dias | Region Latin America | Jan 31, 2017

From 28-30 November 2016, informal recyclers from Brazil hosted the international event Expocatadores in which they invited Latin American and European recyclers to join them in Be...

Interviews

Olga Abizaid and Ana Carolina Ogando with Renarec leaders

Scoping Exercise on Gender & Rights with RENAREC

Olga Abizaid, Ana Carolina Ogando | Region Latin America | Jun 17, 2016

In March 2016, AVINA and Red Nacional de Recicladores de Ecuador (RENAREC) invited WIEGO to visit Quito, Ecuador in order to get a better understanding of the waste sector dynamics...

Reports Trainings

Portraits of ‘Gender and Waste’ in Belo Horizonte

Sonia Maria Dias | Region Latin America | May 03, 2016

Brittany Ayana Thomas is an American student who came to Belo Horizonte in August 2015 to work with Dr. Sonia Maria Dias in the “Gender and Waste” Project, an empowerme...

Reports

Gender and Waste Recycling: A Toolkit for Teachers, Researchers and Practitioners

Sonia Dias, Ana Carolina Ogando | Region Latin America | Apr 26, 2016

As part of the Waste and Gender Project, this toolkit was developed for a broad audience interested in understanding the connections between gender inequalities in the waste sector...

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Waste pickers in Turkey – an Overview

Sonia Maria Dias | Region Europe | Mar 15, 2016

Serter Oran provides an overview of the waste pickers’ situation in Turkey. This video is part of the series “Scenes from the Heart of Recycling” at globalrec.org. You ...

Videos

Celebrate waste pickers with this video. Waste Pickers day 2016

GlobalRec | Region Global | Mar 01, 2016

This 7-minute animated film shows how cities on different continents have taken diverse approaches to integrating waste pickers in municipal waste management systems and how waste ...

Videos

Waste pickers at Cop21: Creating solutions for climate change

Pablo Rey | Region Global | Jan 28, 2016

Since 2009, waste pickers from around the world have participated in several United Nations Climate Change Conventions (UNFCCC). In those events they’ve raised their voices deman...

Climate Change Videos

Scenes from the heart of recycling: a series

Sonia Dias, WIEGO | Region Latin America | Oct 21, 2015

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...

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