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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.

Contact information

Available information upon request.