International Alliance of Waste Pickers

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Joint Statement: World Circular Economy Forum 2025. A Call to Centre Inclusivity and Perspectives from the Global South.

International Alliance of Waste Pickers May 14, 2025

Discover the joint statement from the World Circular Economy Forum 2025, a powerful call to action that puts inclusivity and Global South perspectives at the heart of the circular ...

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IAWP, PPIM-IPI, and WALHI Stand in Solidarity with Workers Affected by Indonesian Government’s Decision to Close 343 Dumpsites

International Alliance of Waste Pickers Apr 05, 2025

Jakarta, Indonesia – In a heart-wrenching statement, the Perkumpulan Pemulung Indonesia Mandiri – Ikatan Pemulung Indonesia (PPIM-IPI), representing over 600,000 waste pickers ...

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The International Alliance of Waste Pickers was featured on this documentary of Bussiness insider.

Waste pickers feature in documentary about forming IAWP

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Nov 06, 2023

International Alliance of Waste Pickers’s Acting General Secretary, Lucia Fernández has featured in an Insider Business documentary exploring the essential role waste pickers pl...

Videos

Waste Pickers, the Missing Piece in India’s EPR Puzzle

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region Asia-Pacific | Oct 26, 2023

The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) has released new research into Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and the impacts it has on Indian waste pickers. Haris Najib, the...

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RedLacre at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region Latin America | Jul 12, 2023

WIEGO and the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers (RedLacre) will denounce in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the situation of the rights o...

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Podcast on Reclaimers in South Africa

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region Africa | Oct 20, 2021

In this podcast published by New Frame they interview Kopano Mokoena, Thando Nkalaand Eva Mokoena, reclaimers of Johannesburg, South Africa. They also interview Federico Parra (WIE...

Interviews

International Live streaming: Waste Pickers Organization in the World

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | 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...

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

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | 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...

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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-Pacific | 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...

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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

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | 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...

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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...

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