Beyond Gramacho

Beyond Gramacho discloses the socio-economic and environmental conditions, struggles and opportunities that are present in informal resource recovery. Over 1800 recyclers (called Catadores in Brazil) were working day and night at the landfill and neighbouring recycling cooperatives, recovering recyclable materials from the waste stream, before its closure in April 2013.

Recycling Networks Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (English)