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
Supported by
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.
Calgary Can
Calgary, Canada
Website: calgarycan.ca/Primary information
- Language
- English
- Type of members
- Members are multi sector, Members are waste pickers, Members employ waste pickers, Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Women composition
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Complementary Information
- Information source
Comments / Narrative
Calgary Can is a non-profit organization that launched in 2012 to recognize our city’s informal recycling community (i.e. bottle pickers), as a community and environmental ASSET. We actively engage with Calgary’s bottle picking population to co-develop solutions to their daily challenges, while also helping other Calgarians understand their value and potential. We use human-centred design to co-develop appropriate, forward-thinking and economically sustainable solutions to the informal recyclers’ challenges, along with the people that live them daily. Thanks for letting us join your awesome network!