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Red Nacional de Recicladores de Bolivia

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Website: redsantacruz.org

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%

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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.

Contact information

Available information upon request.

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