Cooperativa Centroamérica Limpia

Managua, Nicaragua

Primary information

Year formed

2010

Language

Spanish

Number of members

20

Type of members

Members are waste pickers

Occupation of members

Waste pickers

Type of Organization

Cooperative

Organizational Reach

Local

Workplace of members

Door to door, Street

Objectives

Recycling, recognition of waste pickers, strengthen unity and cohesion among 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

Complementary Information

Information source

WORD 4/9/2012, RedLacre 2012

Comments / Narrative

The Cooperative was formed in 2010 because of the necessity to use organized ways of making visible the work of recycling in the capital of Nicaragua, uniting a group of recyclers who were working in a dispersed manner.