COP17
Slideshow: Global Alliance of Waste Pickers in Durban – COP17
Slideshow & Videos – Waste Pickers featured on Climate Change Studio at COP17
Slideshow – The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers make their voices heard at COP17
Video – “While indecision reigned” (Down to Earth)
“Indian recyclers lose jobs to green economy” (Climate Change Media Partnership)
“Cut out the middlemen, say waste pickers” (SOWETAN live)
“Wastepickers given the cold shoulder outside ICC” (The Mercury)
“Thousands March at U.N. Climate Summit in Durban to Demand Climate Justice” (Democracy Now!)
Video and Slideshow – Waste Pickers March with Global Day of Action
Media Alert: Monday, Dec. 5 – Waste Pickers at COP17
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Preparing for COP17 – Waste pickers get active
How do waste picking jobs link up with threatening climate change? Waste pickers from across South Africa will learn about, and discuss this issue in a three day workshop. Together with waste pickers from India, Latin America, Kenya and Senegal they will prepare for the Cop 17 … COP 17 begins on 28 November. While this conference is happening waste pickers will have their own meetings … December 3 is a global day of action. All members of civil society, including the trade unions and environmental organisations, will demonstrate the importance of protecting our planet against disaster. Waste pickers will come out in their numbers to state that they are mitigating the effects of climate change by recycling waste so governments should value them and give them good support and opportunities.
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False solutions to climate change – CDM incineration and landfill gas systems
Incinerators take recyclable materials such as paper and plastic to burn them and produce electricity. Landfill gas systems bury vegetables and kitchen waste, mixed with other kinds of waste, to produce methane and then electricity as well. In this way, these technologies actively compete with the valuable contribution of waste pickers to prevent catastrophic climate change as well as with general recycling programmes. Waste pickers and other recyclers offer much greater greenhouse gas reductions, especially when combined with biological treatment methods.