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
Red Nacional de Recicladores de Bolivia
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Website: redsantacruz.orgPrimary information
- Year formed
- 2008
- Language
- Spanish
- Number of groups
- 6
- Number of members
- 1,000
- Type of members
- Members are waste picker organizations, Members are waste pickers
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Network of cooperatives
- Organizational Reach
- National
- Workplace of members
- Door to door, Street
- Organization Structure
- Membership based Associations in Santa Cruz, Villa Montes,Sucre, Montero. La Paz, Potosi,Oruro,Cochabamba
- Objectives
- Recycling, strengthen unity and cohesion amongst waste pickers, recognition of waste pickers
- Affiliations
- Redlacre
- Women composition
- 78,0%
Social networking sites
Benefits
Services
- What kind of relationship exists with the municipality?
- Integrated into formal systems of source segregation
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Excellent and/or friendly
- Activities
- Community sale of materials, Community storage of materials, Special collections from large generators of waste
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 4/11/2012, RedLacre 2012
Comments / Narrative
168 members in 10 Cooperatives, 46% between 40 and 65 years, 74% without a house.