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 Pepenadores Relleno Municipal
Comayagüela DC, Honduras
Primary information
- 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
Social networking sites
Benefits
Services
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 16/03/2012, RedLacre 2012