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.

Metro Manila Linis-Ganda, Inc.

Year formed: 1983
Registered in: 1983
Language: English
Number of groups: 17
Number of members: 1,500
Type of members: Waste picker support organization
Occupation of members: Waste pickers
Type of Organization: Non governmental organization
Organizational Reach: Local
Workplace of members: Street
Objectives: The organization preserves the environment by encouraging the segregation of garbage in the kitchen into: compostable, recyclable, and residual, to reduce air, water, and land pollution, reduce the demand for water and energy used in processing paper, plastics, bottles, and metals, and to save trees in the forest, oil under the sea, iron ore in the mountains, and sand on the beach.
Women composition