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inclusive models
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A model materials recovery center is inaugurated in Baner, India
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Brazilian waste pickers say there is a scarcity of recyclable material
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Mexico City recognizes the rights of informal waste pickers
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South Africa progresses towards integrating waste pickers
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PIMPEX and Sure We Can: visibility for NYC canners
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I Belong Here: a Vancouver binner shares his struggle
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Scenes from the heart of recycling: a series
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“I Belong Here”: a video about the Binners’ Project
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Open dumps and the environment: an intimate connection
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Waste pickers are essential to successful, sustainable waste management
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1071 wastepickers enrolled in Rashtriya Swasthya Beema Yojna
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Pimpri-Chinchwad waste pickers win minimum wage battle
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Towards a solid organization of waste pickers in Sierra Leone
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Plastic Industry Invites, Then Throws Out Green NGO from meet
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KKPKP waste pickers win a minimum wage, ID cards and life insurance
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Vancouver’s Binner’s Project continues to expand after successful coffee cup revolution
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South African waste pickers call on the government to build recycling facility
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840 waste pickers contracted to recycle during the World Cup
The Movement of Brazilian Waste Pickers (MNCR) showed once more the result of a national effort in the struggle for recognition with the official partipation of waste pickers in recycling service during the World Cup. Close to 840 waste pickers organized in cooperatives and networks were part of the recycling effort across 12 World Cup stadiums, as well as at official World Cup events.
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Petition! Support informal recyclers and zero waste in Bogota
We invite concerned groups and individuals across the globe to support a petition by Bogota’s informal recyclers (waste pickers) urging Colombia’s Inspector-General, Alejandro Ordóñez, to reverse the decision to oust the democratically-elected Mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro. The ruling against Mayor Petro was based on actions he took against private waste management companies in the process of implementing an inclusive Zero Waste Program in Bogota.