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 Bogotá (ARB)
Bogota, Colombia
Website: asociacionrecicladoresbogota.org/Primary information
- Year formed
- 1990
- Registered in
- 1991
- Formally registered
- On
- Language
- Spanish
- Number of groups
- 17
- Number of members
- 2,500
- Type of members
- Members are waste picker organizations
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Association, Federation of cooperatives
- Organizational Reach
- Regional
- Workplace of members
- Door to door, Sorting center, Street
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- City Federation of Cooperatives
- Women composition
Social networking sites
Benefits
- Safety & Technology
- Gloves, Masks, Risk training,, Yes
Services
- What kind of relationship exists with the municipality?
- Payment for materials collected
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Conflictual and/or problematic
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Collection of recyclables, Community sale of materials, Community storage of materials, Organizing collective events, Training and capacity building
- Sorting Spaces
- Sorting centers
- Challenges to access waste
- Availability of waste, Negative attitude towards waste, Privatization
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.
Contact information
Last updates from Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB)
At GlobalRec.org
Waste Pickers in Colombia Build a Second House for Waste PickersThe Waste Pickers’ Association of Bogota Launches the Plastic Wood PlantRapport sur la persécution et le harcèlement des des leaders des récupérateurs en ColombieReport of persecution and harassment of leader waste pickers in ColombiaComunicado de imprensa em apoio ao direito dos catadores colombianosPress Release in Support of Colombian Waste Pickers’ RightsRallies for the rights of Waste Pickers in ColombiaRally in Bogota for the global waste pickers' dayListen to the voices of Waste pickers at Expocatadores 2016March 1st, no borders for those who fight! (2016)