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.

Cooperativa Pepenadores Relleno Municipal

Year formed: 2010
Language: Spanish
Number of groups: 1
Number of members: 120
Type of members: Members are waste pickers
Occupation of members: Waste pickers
Type of Organization: Cooperative, Trade union
Organizational Reach: Local
Workplace of members: Landfill
Membership: Yes
Organization Structure: They work at the landfill and gathered together because many landfills have been privatized and the mapping of the RedLAcre served to open their eyes so they could organize themselves so as not to privatize the landfill. There are 18 cities where apparently there are Waste pickers organizations, but there is no National organization. Not everyone has a formal organization, but if they do, they are called Cooperatives. Although there are 120 members, at the landfills there are 1200, 350 of whom are women.
Affiliations: Redlacre
Women composition