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
Cooperativa ABAZAC
San Salvador, El Salvador
Primary information
- Year formed
- 1986
- Number of members
- 16
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Type of Organization
- Cooperative
- Workplace of members
- Door to door
- Objectives
- Recycling, recognition of waste pickers
- Women composition
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Benefits
Services
- Activities
- Community sale of materials, Community storage of materials, New items made from collected materials, Special collections from large generators of waste
- Treatmet of organic materials
- Biogas, Composting, Pig farming
Complementary Information
- Information source
- RedLacre 2012