A serious public health threat is quietly festering at Bulawayo City Council’s Richmond dumpsite, popularly known as Ngozi Mine, where hazardous medical waste lies strewn carelessly across the ground.

Dozens of Colombian waste pickers inundated Bogota’s iconic Bolivar Square with about 15 tons of recyclable goods Tuesday to ...

While informal settlements are most vulnerable to climate effects like urban flooding, solutions often are limited. Hasiru ...

A grave public health threat is festering at Bulawayo's Richmond landfill, commonly known as Ngozi Mine, where hazardous medical waste has been discovered ...

The Heavy Picker 4.0 is a multipurpose waste sorting robot that can handle bulky materials such as wood, metal, plastic and cardboard. It is capable of sorting items weighing up to 88 pounds each ...

Member states of the U.N. Environment Assembly are in charge of developing the treaty, so in their quest for a just transition, that’s who waste pickers and their advocates need to get on board.

Mella, the waste picker from Chile, said the idea that petrochemical companies support waste pickers is “laughable.” “It’s super nice and super interesting for them to say, ...

Madi Koena, a waste picker from South Africa and delegate to the treaty negotiations on behalf of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers, highlights how critical this opportunity is: ‘It’s ...

How waste pickers are fighting for recognition in the UN global plastics treaty "Private companies are not capable of extracting anywhere near the amount of recyclables that reclaimers are." ...

The poem that raises uncomfortable questions is written by Poornima Chikarmane, who has long worked with Pune’s waste picker community. Chikarmane and Lakshmi Narayanan, who have conceptualised ...

Following efforts by waste picker organisations, the regulations were amended in May 2021, ordering waste pickers to be paid for their services from November 2022.

Kolhapur: A waste picker on Wednesday returned a gold chain worth Rs 8.30 lakh to its rightful owner after finding it in a bag of nirmalya immersed at the Sangam ghat on Sept 7. The wife of ...