Headlines AfricaJun 12, 2025
Africa: Waste Pickers and Vendors Should Be Treated As Workers, Not Small Businesses - Labour Lawyer: [The Conversation Africa] A new report from the International Labour Organisation outlines a set of propositions on how countries should go about formalising the informal economy. The report provides the basis for negotiations on the subject at the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 2025. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLJXjZ #Africa #WastePickers #WorkersRights #InformalEconomy #ILO
Richard HullMay 22, 2025
Excellent initiative. #GreenJobs #GreenWork #WasteCollection #WastePickers #ProPoor www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Larry NeufeldJun 9, 2024
How Waste Pickers Are Fighting Big Oil to Win the War on Plastic Pollution #BigOil #pollution #plastics #recycling #wastepickers https://glblctzn.co/UfD30KxTeKb #globalcitizen
Peter RileyNov 17, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/nov/17/waste-pickers-nairobi-dandora-dump-site-in-pictures

#wastepickers #plastic #nairobi

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Children play on their school field at James Gichuru primary school as the burning of waste metres away produces toxic smoke. Tearfund’s Maina said: ‘The air pollution from #burningplastic causes cancer, respiratory ailments such as #asthma and #emphysema, skin and eye diseases, and damage to the reproductive and nervous systems. This treaty must bring about changes for those who have suffered the effects..

The waste pickers of Nairobi’s Dandora dump site – in pictures

Nairobi’s Dandora dump site is one of the largest in Africa and less than 8 miles from where talks will be held on a UN plastic pollution treaty

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Greenpeace SwitzerlandMar 2, 2023

« #WastePickers save cities tons of money and CO2 emissions 💚

However, most of them still face precarious and unfair working conditions.

🤔How can cities give them the conditions they deserve? 👉 Leave a comment!

#InternationalWastePickersDay #UrbanJustice https://t.co/Yyp3BOymFK »

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“#WastePickers save cities tons of money and CO2 emissions 💚 However, most of them still face precarious and unfair working conditions. 🤔How can cities give them the conditions they deserve? 👉 Leave a comment! #InternationalWastePickersDay #UrbanJustice”

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