International Waste Pickers Day 2024
Waste pickers from around the world gather on March 1st to commemorate International Waste Pickers Day, ahead of their formalizing as an international union. Waste pickers gather o...
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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International Waste Picker Day Summary
International Waste Pickers Day 2023
Today we join the world in commemorating International Waste Pickers Day by marching with waste pickers from 19 countries in Dandora (Nairobi) Kenya. We fight, we commemorate and...
Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2022 Global Waste Picker Day
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...
Recycling Without Waste Pickers is Garbage: 2021 Global Waste Picker Day
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...
Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 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...
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...
Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 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...
Global waste picker day 2017: Recycling in our hands
It is with great pleasure that we are sharing with all the recycling community and allies the different campaigns and demonstrations taking place today march 1st, international was...
March 1st, no borders for those who fight! (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...
Celebrate waste pickers with this video. Waste Pickers day 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 ...
Waste Pickers Around the World database launched on Waste Pickers’ Day 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 ...
March 1st, 2015: International Waste Pickers’ Day
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...
Global Waste Pickers’ Day: One day of celebration, 364 days of struggle!
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...
Global Waste picker’s Day, 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...