Sure We Can in jeopardy!
Sure We Can, NYC’s only non-profit redemption center, was founded in 2007 by and for canners, or those who collect and redeem deposit-marked containers to earn income. Since ...
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Supported by
North America
Ground Score, a new waste picker organization in the USA
A new waste picker association took root in the United States of America in 2019, and this year will be its first time celebrating International Waste Picker Day on March 1st. Port...
Sure we Can, organized waste pickers in Brooklyn NY, fights eviction
Sure We Can (SWC) is a community space, sustainability hub, and redemption center located in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY (USA). At our site, canners, or those who collect and redeem bott...
Gathering of waste pickers from Paris and New York
On September 26th, a workshop was held in New York. At the workshop, waste pickers from Sure We Can (SWC), and Samuel Le Coeur, delegate from Amelior, the association which holds b...
Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2019
This past March 1st, 2019, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow recyclers who were murdered in Colombia 27 years ago. In their honor, this date became a global day in whic...
Sure We Can’s Challenges and Hopes at the End of 2018 and Beginning of 2019
We have been revitalized, re-charged and re-energized by the recyclers’ gathering we participated in in October 2018, in Buenos Aires. Thanks to the organizers, the hosts, the fu...
The Coffee Cup Revolution starts in Vancouver
Every week, in Vancouver, Canada, 2.6 million coffee cups are sent to landfills instead of being recycled properly. On October 16, 2017 the Binners’ Project hosted its fourth ann...
National Pride: The Valoristes Cooperative celebrates a social and ecological St. Jean Day
The Quebec National Holiday, St. Jean Baptiste Day (June 19th), is a time of festivities that comes with a lot of consumption outside the home. To address this ecological issue, an...
30 years as a canner in New York
Eugene Gadsden has been a canner for nearly 30 years. Eugene wanted to earn his own living instead of depending on the soup kitchen. Thus, together with Sister Ana Martinez de Luco...
Calgary’s bottle pickers: working in their own way
You have likely seen them in the places where you live, work and shop, and heard the clanging of their shopping carts as they pass by. Their toil draws reactions that range from ki...
PIMPEX and Sure We Can: visibility for NYC canners
Who are the canners The canners of NYC are autonomous workers who earn a living by collecting cans and bottles to be recycled. Through their selective collection activity they grea...
I Belong Here: a Vancouver binner shares his struggle
Meet Michael Leland, a local binner (aka “waste picker”) in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. He shares his past, how he became a binner, and the challenges he must face on a...
“I Belong Here”: a video about the Binners’ Project
“I Belong Here”: a video about the Binners’ Project of Vancouver, Canada.
Safe and Sustainable Recycling: Protecting Workers who Protect the Planet
Full Report Press Release (embargoed until Tuesday June 23, 2015 at 9 am EST) Share this report with your city’s leaders. Tell them that cities can create good and safe recyc...
A success for the solidarity cooperative Les Valoristes
In the presence of its partners, the waste pickers’ solidarity cooperative Les Valoristes unveiled at the Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins the bottom line of its...
Vancouver’s Binner’s Project continues to expand after successful coffee cup revolution
On October 6, 2014 the Coffee Cup Revolution (CCR) was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 169 people from across Vancouver collected coffee cups from garbage cans for a 5...
Canadian waste pickers recycled 150,000 containers!
We thought of celebrating after recycling 120,000 containers but then we surpassed that last week! The success of the temporary recycling shed belonging to the Valoristes’ cooperative in Quebec confirms the need for permanent recycling sheds like the ones that exist across most of Canada.