Global Waste Picker Day Summary

Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2022 Global Waste Picker Day

GlobalRec | Region Global | Mar 11, 2022

This March 1st, 2022, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow waste pickers who were murdered in Colombia in 1992. In their honor, this date became a global day in which recy...

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Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2021 Global Waste Picker Day

GlobalRec | Region Global | Mar 16, 2021

This March 1st, 2021, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow waste pickers who were murdered in Colombia in 1992. In their honor, this date became a global day in which recy...

Rallies

Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2020

GlobalRec | Region Global | Feb 29, 2020

This March 1st, 2020, waste pickers are paying 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 whi...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2019

GlobalRec | Region Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Latin America, North America | Mar 20, 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...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2018

GlobalRec | Region Global, Latin America | Mar 01, 2018

It is with great pleasure that we are sharing with all the recycling community and allies the differents campaigns and demonstrations taking place today march 1st, international wa...

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March 1st, no borders for those who fight! (2016)

FACyR, ARB, RENARC, UCRUS, Sure We Can, Amelior | Region Global | Mar 01, 2016

Today, March 1, we commemorate International Waste Pickers’ Day in remembrance of our compañeros who were brutally assassinated in the Universidad Libre de Barranquilla (Colombi...

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Celebrate waste pickers with this video. Waste Pickers day 2016

GlobalRec | Region Global | Mar 01, 2016

This 7-minute animated film shows how cities on different continents have taken diverse approaches to integrating waste pickers in municipal waste management systems and how waste ...

Videos

Waste Pickers Around the World database launched on Waste Pickers’ Day 2015

Globalrec | Region Global | Mar 03, 2015

This year, to commemorate International Waste Pickers’ Day on March 1st, we would like to share with waste pickers and allies the launch of our online participatory database ...

Reports

March 1st, 2015: International Waste Pickers’ Day

Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) | Region Latin America | Mar 02, 2015

March on March 3 at 8 am from the Plaza de Toros to Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia International Mobilizations Why are we marching rather than celebrating? Because w...

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Global Waste Pickers’ Day: One day of celebration, 364 days of struggle!

GlobalRec | Region Global | Feb 28, 2014

International Waste Pickers’ Day is celebrated on March 1 in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed at the Universidad Libre de Barranquill...

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Global Waste picker’s Day, 2013

GlobalRec Feb 27, 2013

International Waste Pickers’ Day is celebrated on March 1 in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed at the Universidad Libre de Barranquill...

Events