Examples of using Waste pickers in English and their translations into Greek
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most of whom used to be waste pickers.
absence of legal identity and recognition for waste pickers and their organizations.
is a secondary- level federation of 17 cooperative organizations representing around 1,800 waste pickers in Bogotá, Colombia.
The cooperation between these two institutional forms needs to be encouraged to help improve the livelihoods of waste pickers.
Waste pickers make significant contributions to public health,
A 2007 study found that waste pickers recovered approximately 20 percent of all waste material in three of six cities studied.
It first advocated for improved recognition of waste pickers' work including through research on their working conditions
They can encourage the participation of these organizations in policy-making processes that would improve waste pickers' lives.
Although much progress has been made to improve living and working conditions of waste pickers through cooperatives and other SSEOs, various challenges remain
Despite their contributions, waste pickers have a low social status,
At-Tawafouk is a cooperative established in 2010 in Rabat, Morocco to secure livelihoods of waste pickers who would be affected by the local government's decision to close a dump
Self and social recognition of waste pickers as recycling workers is a pre-requisite toward building collective voice
other SSEOs, waste pickers can strengthen their collective voice
14 formed in 1990 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State has represented the voice of waste pickers in various policy dialogues on waste management at municipal
In India, there are two prominent cases where waste pickers were first organized into trade unions to strengthen their collective voice
introducing a new remuneration scheme to compensate waste pickers for their services in March 2013.
in 2001 and the role of waste pickers in collecting and recycling materials is clearly mentioned in the Law 12.305 on the National Policy of Solid Waste approved in 2010.
A workshop“Understanding the Role of Waste Pickers and their Cooperatives in Waste Management and Recycling”, organized by the ILO
Through the cooperative, established in 2009 with the support from an NGO, waste pickers successfully partnered with the local government(Mpofana Municipality)
In this regard, generation of reliable data and knowledge on waste pickers and the regulatory environment around their organizations including cooperatives is particularly important in informing policy change.