Waste pickers demand expansion of the Bottle Bill in NYC
Informal recyclers and their allies gather outside New York City Hall to demand expansion of the state’s Bottle Bill. Josefa Marin, supported by the Canner Advocacy Task Forc...
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
Supported by
Sure We Can
Sure We Can in jeopardy!
Sure We Can, NYC’s only non-profit redemption center, was founded in 2007 by and for canners, or those who collect and redeem deposit-marked containers to earn income. Since ...
Gathering of waste pickers from Paris and New York
On September 26th, a workshop was held in New York. At the workshop, waste pickers from Sure We Can (SWC), and Samuel Le Coeur, delegate from Amelior, the association which holds b...
Sure We Can’s Challenges and Hopes at the End of 2018 and Beginning of 2019
We have been revitalized, re-charged and re-energized by the recyclers’ gathering we participated in in October 2018, in Buenos Aires. Thanks to the organizers, the hosts, the fu...
PIMPEX and Sure We Can: visibility for NYC canners
Who are the canners The canners of NYC are autonomous workers who earn a living by collecting cans and bottles to be recycled. Through their selective collection activity they grea...
The global north has waste pickers too! Film about New York “canners” nominated for Academy Award
There is an army of waste pickers in the streets of New York, collecting cans and bottles. In New York, they are called “canners.” They can sell cans and bottes to middlemen for a few cents there. For the unemployed of the wealthiest city in the United States, it’s a growing profession.