Stats « Waste pickers Around the World (WAW)
- WAW in numbers
- 427 Number of organizations in the data base
- 63 Number of organizations that are Waste Picker Organizations (Latin America)
- 115,541 Waste pickers in waste picker organizations
Latin America
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Organizational Reach number of organizations (%)
Local (52.4%)
National (27%)
Regional (19%)
International (1.6%)
(Total organizations formed by waste pickers: 63)
Type of organization number of organizations (%)
Cooperative (52.4%)
Association (28.6%)
Federation of cooperatives (22.2%)
Network of cooperatives (7.9%)
Movement (6.3%)
Trade union (4.8%)
Network
Federation
(Total organizations formed by waste pickers: 63)
Country number of organizations (%)
Brazil: 27 (42.9%)
Colombia: 13 (20.6%)
Argentina: 3
Peru: 3
Venezuela: 2
Chile: 2
Nicaragua: 2
Panama: 2
Honduras: 2
Dominican Republic: 1
Costa Rica: 1
Paraguay: 1
Bolivia: 1
Ecuador: 1
Mexico: 1
Uruguay: 1
Type of members number of organizations (%)
Members are waste pickers 49 (77.8%)
Members are waste picker organizations 22 (34.9%)
Occupation of members number of organizations (%)
Waste pickers 63 (100%)
Year Formed number of organizations
Not known
1975
1989
1990
1999
2001
2005
2007
2008
2009
2010
Year Registered number of organizations
Not known
1991
2003
2005
2007
2009
2010
2011
Materials collected number of organizations
Activities number of organizations
Community sale of materials
Community storage of materials
Special collections from large generators of waste
New items made from collected materials
Selling materials
Collection of recyclables
Sorting waste
Recycling
Waste collection
Waste sorting
Organizing collective events
Training and capacity building
Collecting materials
Workplace of Members number of organizations
Street
Door to door
Dumpsite
Landfill
Sorting center
Sanitary landfill
Collection from companies
Recycling center
Home-based
What kind of relationship exists with the municipality? number of organizations
None
Payment for materials collected
Providers of infrastructure
Integrated into formal systems of source segregation
Languages number of organizations
Spanish
Portuguese