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‘El relleno sanitario Doña Juana tiene que desaparecer’ (El Espectador)

deia | Region Latin America | Jan 06, 2012

En tres meses, Guillermo Asprilla, el nuevo gerente de la Unidad Administrativa de Servicios Públicos (Uaesp), tendrá que presentar ante la Corte Constitucional el nuevo proyecto...

Press Privatization

“Cartoneros Organizados” (ADN Ciudad.com)

deia | Region Latin America | Jan 05, 2012

A fines del 2011, bajo la órbita de control y gestión de la Dirección General de Reciclado, dependiente de la Subsecretaría de Higiene Urbana porteña, quedó inaugurada la ...

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“Nuevo director de la UAESP asegura que por ahora no es necesario declarar urgencia manifiesta” (El Caracol)

deia | Region Latin America | Jan 04, 2012

Durante su posesión como director de la Unidad Administrativa Especial de Servicios Públicos, el ex concejal Guillermo Asprilla, aseguró que la entidad cuenta con las herramient...

Press Privatization

“Preço do lixo reciclável cai e catadores são demitidos” (EPTV.com)

deia | Region Latin America | Jan 02, 2012

Brasil – Jan. 2, 2012 O preço pago pelos lixos recicláveis em 2012 está mais baixo. O quilo do papel, comercializado em 2011 a R$ 0,40, apresenta um valor R$ 0,10 mais bai...

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“Waste-pickers face bleak future” (Deccan Herald)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Jan 01, 2012

Members of All India Kachra Shramik Mahasangh (AIKSM) said the government is privatising garbage collection, allowing private companies to make profit. “The government’s intent...

Press Privatization

“Rags to World Bank: Gujarat women script new future” (Times of India)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Jan 01, 2012

AHMEDABAD: After rummaging through heaps of garbage in the morning, Kapila Rathod, a 24-year-old waste-picker from Gomtipur in Ahmedabad, does a nine-to-six job for World Bank. If ...

Press Privatization

“Corporation’s plan to generate electricity from waste is unviable, say experts” (Times of India)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Jan 01, 2012

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation’s plan to generate electricity from garbage has been slammed by environmentalists and waste management experts. In a bid to tackle the growin...

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“Sindicato apoia a inauguração da fábrica de reciclagem de catadores” (Sindemetau)

deia | Region Latin America | Jan 01, 2012

Os catadores de recicláveis de Sorocaba e região inauguraram nesta quarta, dia 13, uma fábrica de tubos de esgoto e mangueiras de irrigação. Os produtos serão produzidos dos ...

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“En Caracas se recicla apenas 15% de los desechos que se producen” (El Universal)

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 30, 2011

A nivel mundial existe el consenso de que el reciclaje es el único camino a seguir para abordar el tema de la generación de residuos; en Caracas casi todas las iniciativas de rec...

Press

“Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants” (Down to Earth)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 28, 2011

With the fear of losing their means of living looming over them, waste pickers from across the country have opposed Delhi government’s plan to install three waste to energy plant...

Incineration Press

“Mexico City closes vast trash dump” (Boston Globe)

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 25, 2011

MEXICO CITY—Mexico City will close one of the world’s largest garbage dumps by Dec. 31 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and...

Press

Video – Palavra Ética com dona Geralda da ASMARE

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 24, 2011

Sob a coordenação de Gilvander Moreira, nesse Programa Palavra Ética, da TV Comunitária de Belo Horizonte — TVC/BH -, dona Geralda — Maria das Graças Marçal, Coor...

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“Civic body tells SWaCH to stop collecting garbage” (Times of India)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 24, 2011

PUNE: Following the breakdown of the garbage processing plant at the landfill site in Phursungi-Urali, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has instructed SWaCH (Solid Waste Collec...

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“New waste management plans endanger Indian ragpickers” (DW-World)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 21, 2011

For the last five years, Manubhan, 18, and his brother Pramod, 16, have been up at the crack of dawn heading for houses and restaurants to collect recyclable items. They venture in...

Incineration Press

“Por no respetar derechos de los recicladores, Corte tumba licitación de basuras en Bogotá” (Noticias Caracol)

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 20, 2011

Henao descartó problemas en la recolección de basuras en Bogotá. “En este momento están vigentes unos contratos para recoger hasta el último kilo de basura que haya en c...

Press Privatization

“Los cartoneros inauguran planta” (Noticias Urbanas)

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 19, 2011

Hace una década la crisis económica llevó a miles de personas a sobrevivir de la recolección de residuos. Y este domingo a las 18 horas aquellos que eran parias inauguran el pr...

Press

“No to dirty CDM” by Payal Parekh (in Spanish & English)

deia Dec 13, 2011

Unlike other UN Climate Conferences there have been very few creative actions; in large part due to the fact that actions are permitted in two small areas and UN police are harassing observers for handing out flyers!

Nevertheless there have been two great actions against dirty Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project types, incineration and coal. Yesterday, wastepickers that belong to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) staged a vibrant action. Read more

Climate Change Press

Slideshow & Videos – Waste Pickers featured on Climate Change Studio at COP17

deia Dec 13, 2011

On the last day of COP17, Suman More and Sushila Sabale of India, Neil Tangri, with GAIA, and Nomacebo Mbayo and Simon Mbata, of the South African Waste Pickers’ Association,...

Climate Change Press

Video – “While indecision reigned” (Down to Earth)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 12, 2011

Do not support companies that burn waste, said the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers at a protest demonstration during the COP17 at Durban.

Climate Change Press

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