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KKPKP Documentary “Full Circle” now available online
View this movie at cultureunplugged.com Full Circle is a short documentary about KKPKP (trade union of waste pickers) and its work. The documentary follows the women of KKPKP, an...
GAIA Intervention at the 58th CDM Exective Board Meeting 26.11.10
The 58th CDM EB Meeting was held in Cancun from 23-26 November 2010. Being already there, it was a good chance to do an intervention and put forward some sharpened questions on GAI...
Expo Catadores 2010
Watch Expocatadores 2010, Live broadcasts Dec. 21 – 23, 2010 São Paulo, Brazil (Transmissão aovivo; Transmisión en vivo)
The Tangled Web of Waste
Published in ECO ISSUE NO 10 VOLUME CXXVII December 9th, 2010 Once again, the United Nations Environment Programme has done its homework in Cancun. The newly published study Waste ...
Sushila Speaks
Sushila Sable has represented waste pickers at two international climate conferences – in Copenhagen in December 2009 and in Tianjin China in October 2010. In this post writt...
waste pickers send greetings from Brazil
Waste pickers from the MNCR send greetings from Belo Horizonte. Eliana, from ASMARE saw what is a blog from the first time by visiting the Waste Pickers and Climate Change. She sai...
life testimony – Madalena Duarte -Brazil
Last Friday I spoke with Madalena Duarte about her life and struggles and this is her message to the Cancun delegation: “I am a waste picker since the age of 7. At that time ...
Recyclers Tout Benefits of Their Trade at Cancún Summit
Excerpt from IPS article on waste pickers at COP 16 Recyclers Tout Benefits of Their Trade at Cancún Summit By Emilio Godoy Ezequiel Estay began collecting glass bottles in 1991 a...
La Alianza se encuentra con pepenadores en México
En el marco de las actividades que la Alianza Global de Recicladores y Aliados se encuentra realizando en la Conferencia de las Partes en Cancún, ayer 4 de diciembre hicimos un re...
Support to the delegation in Cancun from Madalena Duarte
Sou Madalena Duarte cooperada da COOPERT e liderança do MNCR e da Rede Latina de Catadores. Hoje aqui no Brasil hoje os catadores estão passando por um grande desafio também que...
Wastepickers Demand a Global Fund and Speak Out Against Incineration / Recicladores exigen fondo global y alertan sobre financiamiento de incineradores.
Cancun – December 2, 2010 The Global Alliance of Wastepickers and Allies, through its representatives from Latin America, South Africa, and India, is in Cancun to speak out a...
En cada uno de nosotros esta la solución, en nuestras manos
Independientemente del lugar y el momento idioma religión o cultura, el estado social cultural o económico que tengan las personas vivimos bajo un mismo techo el cual estamos agu...
Excerpt from “Respect for Recyclers” a GAIA publication
While municipally-run recycling systems are commonplace in industrialized countries, in the developing world, most recycling is done by wastepickers. Wastepickers are self-employed...
Excerpt from Giles Parkinson of the Business Spectator….
What do we want?! When do we want it?! The first demonstration was held inside the Moon Palace today, with a dozen or so waste collectors from South American countries, India and A...
Press Release: Wastepickers Offer a Solution to Climate Change Decry Waste-to-Energy and Privatisation
For Immediate Release 30 November 2010 Wastepickers Offer a Solution to Climate Change Decry Waste-to-Energy and Privatisation As the world’s environment ministers convene a UN m...
Wastepickers and Climate Change workshop in Chennai
GAIA and the Alliance of Indian Wastepickers held a two day workshop in the city of Chennai on the 29th and 30th of November on Climate and Waste. Wastepickers from 5 cities partic...
Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies Recognize GAIA Day of Action: Call for Freedom of Jailed Mexican Waste Pickers.
The Global Alliance of Wastepickers and Allies denounced the situation of 15 wastepickers (pepenadores) in México, who were arrested on November 25 in Ciudad Juarez after protesti...
environmental agents
Waste pickers of the world and their allies are fighting to save our planet in Cancun. Working most often without public support these informal workers are responsible for high rat...
Text from Address by Silvio Ruiz to the SBSTA Plenary at COP16
Spanish – English Follows…. El mundo que están quemando, no es solo el mundo de los ricos, es el mundo en el que todos vivimos, es nuestro mundo. La sociedad conscient...
Silvio Ruiz Addresses SBSTA Subplenary in Cancun
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies, through its representative Silvio Ruiz, a grassroots recycler from Colombia, spoke today at the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and ...