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Global Waste Pickers’ Day 2012: workers organize to recognize and formalize their profession

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Mar 01, 2012

Global Waste Pickers’ Day is celebrated on March 1 in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed. For the past 20 years since this tragic event, waste pickers/recyclers have continued fighting for recognition of their work.

Organizing Solidarity

The Inner-city Cardboard Recycling Project and Global Wastepicker’s Day

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region Africa, International | Mar 01, 2012

Meeting other informal recyclers from around the world during COP 17 and Global Recyclers’ Day shows me that we are being recognised world-wide and that our challenges are universal. It is also an incentive for me to continue working hard in this job.” Victoria Bubu

Organizing Solidarity