INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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The organizations listed in this WAW database were the result of the effort to merge in one place multiple waste picker related organizations data bases in 2014. Visit the current list of affiliates to the International Alliance of Waste Pickers.
Asociación de Recicladores de Bogota (ARB)
Bogota, Colombia
Website: asociacionrecicladoresbogota.org/Primary information
- Year formed
- 1990
- Registered in
- 1991
- Formally registered
- On
- Language
- Español
- Number of groups
- 17
- Number of members
- 2,500
- Type of members
- Miembros son organizaciones de recicladores
- Occupation of members
- Recicladores
- Type of Organization
- Asociación, Federación de cooperativas
- Organizational Reach
- Regional
- Workplace of members
- Centro de clasificación de residuos, La calle, Puerta a puerta
- Membership
- Sí
- Organization Structure
- Federación de cooperativas de ciudades.
- Women composition
Social networking sites
Benefits
- Safety & Technology
- Formación sobre riesgos, Guantes, Máscaras protectoras, Sí
Services
- What kind of relationship exists with the municipality?
- Pago por materiales recolectados
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Conflictivo y / o problemático
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Almacenamiento comunitario de materiales, Entrenamiento y capacitación, Organización de eventos colectivos, Recogida de materiales reciclables, Venta de materiales en la comunidad
- Sorting Spaces
- Centros de clasificación
- Challenges to access waste
- Actitud negativa hacia los residuos, Disponibilidad de residuos, Privatización
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 9/10/2010, Lucia Fernandez 26/11/2014
Comments / Narrative
Its one of the oldest waste picker organization worldwide. Recyclers in Bogota received economic compensation for the recyclable materials they collected. They are recognized as public service providers and being integrated into the solid waste management system of the city.