INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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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.
Cooperepa y Cooperativa Recicladores
Punta Arenas, Costa Rica
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2005
- Language
- Spanish
- Number of members
- 35
- Type of members
- Members are waste pickers
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Cooperative
- Organizational Reach
- National
- Workplace of members
- Collection from companies, Door to door, Landfill
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- They are formed in the landfills by economic necessity and so as to have less complications.
- Women composition
Social networking sites
Benefits
Services
- Activities
- Community sale of materials
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 16/03/2012, RedLacre 2012
Comments / Narrative
Founded in 2005. Based in Punta Arenas. There are members in all cities in the country where there are recyclers. Of the members, 14 (Cooperativeerepa) and 21 (Cooperative recicladores)