Our partners
Brazilian waste pickers network (MNCR)
Brazilian Waste Pickers Network (Movimento Nacional dos Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis): The National Movement of Collectors of Recyclable Materials (MNCR) is a social movement that for 16 years has been organizing collectors and collectors of recyclable materials throughout Brazil.
Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) - University of Victoria
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Break Free From Plastic
#breakfreefromplastic is a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution. Since its launch in September 2016, nearly 1,500 organizations from across the world have joined the movement to demand massive reductions in single-use plastics and to push for lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis.
UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
Based at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), this Chair is co-directed by Dr. Budd L Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon. The UNESCO Chair supports North-South-South and South-South partnerships that build on and enhance the emerging consensus in knowledge democracy. It co-creates new knowledge through partnerships among universities (academics), communities (civil society) and government (policy makers) leading to new capacities; new solutions to pressing problems related to sustainability, social and economic disparities, cultural exclusion, mistrust and conflict; and awareness among policy makers; enhanced scholarship of engagement; and of social responsibility in Higher Education.
The Diverters Foundation - Victoria, Canada
Dedicated to creating economic opportunities, de-stigmatizing diverting (bottle collection, waste picking, or binning), diverting waste, and promoting social cohesion among members of the diverter community. The Diverters Foundation delivers community programs to help provide skills and economic opportunities for marginalized people in Victoria.
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GAIA
GAIA and their members are global leaders in advancing visionary, win-win solutions to waste and pollution that protect the environment and human wellbeing and build strong, participatory local economies.
International Waste Working Group
Informal recycling is a widespread income generating activity practiced particularly in the global South. Here approximately 1% of the population is involved in solid waste collection, separation and recycling.
WWOSH (Waste Workers Occupational Safety and Health)
World-wide an estimated 20 million people earn their living from recycling waste. Waste picking often involves the collection, sorting, and processing of materials with little or no health and safety protections. Waste pickers may work in the streets, open dumps, sanitary landfills, and sorting warehouses, where each workplace presents different degrees of risks and vulnerabilities to waste pickers. Workers are exposed to infectious diseases from medical waste, heavy metals, dusts and chemical vapors, heat and cold stress, falls and other injuries. There is no organization to train and protect workers from injuries and disease. The vision of WWOSH is that all workers may have a safe work place and return home healthy every day.
Global Alliance of Waste Pickers
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
