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.

Year formed: 2003
Language: English
Number of members: 856
Type of members: Waste picker support organization
Occupation of members: Street sweepers, Waste collectors, Waste pickers
Type of Organization: Cooperative, Non governmental organization, Self-help group
Organizational Reach: Local
Workplace of members: Collection from companies, Street
Objectives: Rights, dignity and welfare of workers, improve working conditions, improve prices of recycled materials, recognition of waste pickers, skills upgrading, improve livelihoods
Women composition

Provides sanitation facilities for slum dwellers and related activities to improve the existing conditions of waste pickers.

Waste Wise Trust