
Category: Publications


Scoping Exercise on Gender & Rights with RENAREC

Portraits of ‘Gender and Waste’ in Belo Horizonte

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

Waste pickers in Turkey – an Overview

Celebrate waste pickers with this video. Waste Pickers day 2016

Waste pickers at Cop21: Creating solutions for climate change

Scenes from the fight for inclusion in Buenos Aires, through the eyes of women waste pickers

Scenes from the heart of recycling: a series

“I Belong Here”: a video about the Binners’ Project

Towards a solid organization of waste pickers in Sierra Leone

Safe and Sustainable Recycling: Protecting Workers who Protect the Planet

Towards Enforcement of Court Order 275 of 2011

Book launch of Good Riddance, about the waste pickers of Johannesburg

Waste Pickers Around the World database launched on Waste Pickers’ Day 2015

Canadian waste pickers recycled 150,000 containers!
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.

Recyclers in Nicaragua: A Productive and Environmental Force
WIEGO, UCA and Red Nica are collaborating to create an alliance for a baseline study of the thousands of waste pickers/recyclers in Nicaragua, the majority of whom are not heard or considered and remain invisible.

Substitution of Animal Traction Vehicles in Bogota
In 2003, the national transit code sought to eradicate animal traction vehicles or animal pulled carts that would have affected hundreds of thousands in Colombia. They had to demand their rights.

Inclusive Recycling in Guatemala
As part of the Regional Initiative for Inclusive Recycling, the Inter-American Development Bank organized a workshop in horizontal training on organizing for waste pickers working at a sanitary landfill in Amatitlán, Guatemala.

The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune
This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their members, including the setting up of a municipally funded health insurance scheme, health advocacy and the use of trust hospitals.