Joburg waste pickers decry abuse while making ends meet
Wastepickers get no help nor recognition from the City of Johannesburg which seems to try to take their livelihoods away from them.
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Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued
It was an accident that could have been avoided. While a waste collector was incinerating infectious waste at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s principal adult referral […]
Joburg wastepickers against “recycling levy”
The formalisation of recycling in Joburg city looks to sideline the people who have been doing the work informally all along.
In a time of global crises, waste workers are our unsung heroes
If the global fight against Covid-19 made one thing clear, it is society’s complete dependency on essential workers, and the risks involved in these professions. […]
How waste pickers in the global South are being sidelined by new policies
The world is producing more and more waste, with serious health and environmental consequences. In urban areas, domestic waste is accumulating fast and landfills fill […]
Turning waste into a sustainable income
With some help from the municipality, waste-pickers in Paarl have formed a co-operative to make themselves a living out of collecting material for recycling.
Wastepickers tell of poor conditions
Wastepickers collect waste and contribute to cleaning the urban environment at no cost to government.
Poorest in Zimbabwe look for food in dumps
Tsanzaguru is a relatively new township in Rusape about 200km away from Harare. Residents complain that Rusape Municipality is dumping food in the area, inviting scavenging by unscrupulous vendors.
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