INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 32 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Supported by
Cooperativa de Servicios de Reciclaje Patacόn
Ciudad de Panama, Panama
Primary information
- Year formed
- 1999
- Registered in
- 2007
- Language
- Spanish
- Number of groups
- 1
- Number of members
- 25
- Type of members
- Members are waste pickers
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Cooperative
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Landfill
- Objectives
- Recycling, recognition of waste pickers, improve prices of reclycled materials
- Women composition
Social networking sites
Benefits
- Member benefits
- Job creation & source of income
Services
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 4/4/2012, RedLacre 2012
Comments / Narrative
They formed the organization in 1999 as a result of the need to control the work in the Cerro Patacon landfill, to identify themselves as recyclers and because of the need to gather together volumes of material to market it at fair prices.