Red Nacional de Recicladores de Bolivia

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Primary 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.