Asociaciόn de Recicladores Eco Parque Rafey

Santo Domingo, Santiago, Dominican Republic

Primary information

Registered in

2009

Language

Spanish

Number of groups

1

Number of members

536

Type of members

Members are waste pickers

Occupation of members

Waste pickers

Type of Organization

Association

Organizational Reach

Local

Workplace of members

Dumpsite, Landfill

Objectives

Improve working conditions, improve livelihoods,

Women composition

Social networking sites

Benefits

Member benefits

Training & advocacy

Services

How is the relationship with the municipality?

Conflictual and/or problematic

Types of materials

Paper and cardboard, Plastics

Are they selling to middlemen?

No

Activities

Community sale of materials, Community storage of materials

Challenges to access waste

Exploitation, Harassment from authorities, Privatization

Complementary Information

Information source

WORD 28/03/2012, RedLacre 2012, Lucia Fernandez 26/11/2014

Comments / Narrative

They formed in 2009 in order to organize waste pickers from the landfills and to change their working conditions. Now there is more solidarity and security among themselves.They collect only in the dumps where they get more than 4T of paper every 15 days, 40 T of cardboard each day and 10 T of plastic. Those who collect cardboard store their materials in groups of 4 (there are about 100 some recyclers/waste pickers) and those who collect plastic are in groups of 2. The community sale of materials happens in the district, but not in Santiago de los Caballeros.