Women waste pickers and other social movements gathered in the city of Osasco, São Paulo, on September 25th and 26th for the first Statewide Meeting of Women Waste Pickers. The me...
Vanessa Pillay, WIEGO ORP Consultant | Region Africa | Jul 02, 2015
Thulisiwe started working on a dumpsite five years ago for Wetland Recycling a company owned by a white man. However, in 2013 after three years of being subjected to irregular wage...
Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research & Information Group (ILRIG) | Region Africa | Apr 15, 2015
Many men, women and children from working class communities make a living through waste-picking by collecting, sorting, recycling, and selling materials that someone else has throw...
Hasirudala means ‘Green Force’. We are a membership-based organisation of waste pickers seeking to improve our conditions of work and ensuring our continued access to recyclabl...
