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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Hlanganani MaAfrika Waste Picker Cooperative
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Number of members
- 75
- Type of members
- Members are waste pickers
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Cooperative
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Landfill, Recycling center, Street
- Affiliations
- South african waste pickers association (sawpa)
- Women composition
- majority women
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income
Services
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 21/08/2013
Comments / Narrative
The municipality informally recognizes the cooperative and has agreed to work with them in the new recycling facility. The central demand made by the workers has been to provide work at the new facility. Additionally, they want to establish better working conditions and to run the recycling facility autonomously without middlemen. The Municipality has already agreed to these demands, as well as to providing electricity and bathrooms.