One thing that'll be meaningful in the #globalplastictreaty negotiation is how the interest of those who experience the disproportionate impact & those making a living off recycling waste like waste pickers as part of the informal economy will be integrated. #INC -1 #wastepickers

Happening Now! Launch of our Global Waste Pickers Day Program Tanzania.
#wastepickers

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

—Henry Ford

Happening Tomorrow! Join HNI's 'Home-based Workers and the Social and Solidarity Economy Webinar'
📅 Wednesday 11 Aug
🎙 Speaker: Simel Esim, ILO
Leads ILO’s portfolio on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy
homenetinternational.org/event/home-bas…

Condolence meeting of vimal and Bali bhai Social movements lost both on the 15th August Vimal bhai led social movements for jal, jangal, jameen Bali bhai toiled to uplift wastepickers community of Delhi and Ghaziabad

These sunglasses might be the most sustainable sunglasses you'll ever own, both environmentally and socially.

There's actually a QR code on the side of the frames that tells you where the waste came from, which wastepickers worked on it and the entire impact that you're having.

In the carbon market you have...

Removers: Companies that remove carbon from the environment

Emitters: Companies that add carbon/pollution to the environment

Governments issue Carbon Credits to removers. They can sell them on at market or to emitters to offset their emissions

Definitely learning a lot and having fun. #wastepickers

#page8 #citypeople of #lagos #wastepickers #scavengers #poverty “ #urbanization often takes place as a result of expansion of slum…”

North American organizations of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (Sure We Can, Binners Project, Co-op Les Valoristes, and Ground Score Association) have started their regional meeting in New York at Sure We Can location.

🔴📢Today Wikipedia + OHCHR are launching #WikiForHumanRights campaign with a webinar with frontline communities affected by petrochemical industry & wastepickers ( #plasticstreaty
❤️Jo Banner
❤️Soledad Mella Vida
⌚️5PM CET
📺youtube.com/watch?v=ycPPBh…

Today my Article was published in Eenadu on Waste pickers' issues of waste management under the informal sector. So protects the waste pickers' rights for effective waste management. #wastepickers #ragpickers rajeev jauhari Swachh Bharat I #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav Swachh Bharat Urban Swachh Telangana Gramin

Across many #cities in developing countries, informal #waste pickers provide the only form of #waste collection. Currently, approximately 80% of the 24 million wastepickers around the globe are informal.
Informal wastepickers are indispensable for #sustainable & #resilient cities

Am inviting you to join us on International Waste Pickers Day as we highlight challenges faced by #WastePickers despite their societal, environmental and economic role in Uganda.
#EndPlasticPollution #EndPlasticPollution
Join us End Plastic Pollution GAIA

A boy was out for a hike in a swamp, when he stumbled upon something that’d been buried for decades. After getting people to help dig, they uncovered a WWII tank. But what was even more surprising was what was inside of it.

Contributing to positive change social change by uplifting and empowering recyclers and wastepickers!
Vision: to improve the livelihoods of the informal sector through building the recycling economy.

Yesterday in the stakeholder panel #INC1 Soledad Mella from ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers explains how toxins associated to plastics and fumes affect the health of wastepickers all around the globe. The plastic pollution crisis is a chemicals crisis. #globaltreaty Plastic Oceans International UN Environment Programme

#nutrek #wastepickers
From r/Star_Trek

🔴 🆕 report on Just transition and Wastepickers in #PlasticsTreaty by UN Habitat & Niva.
👏Emmy Nøklebye
READ: unhabitat.org/sites/default/…

6️⃣MOVEMENT:
❤️Indigenous peoples, surrounding communities affected by the petrochemical industry, wastepickers, youth, women,etc contributed to the discussions. But is not enough
❤️Scientists were pivotal to change the narrative and contribute to substantial and needed changes.

There are opportunities in empowering #WastePickers , we can be able to build plastic-free communities, protect our environment and grow a zero-waste economy.
#IWPD #PlasticsReality #EndPlasticPollution
End Plastic Pollution GAIA ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers

Read: endplasticpollutionow.blogspot.com/p/challenges-f…

At HomeNet International meeting today we will talk about findings from a joint @ILO & @WIEGOGlobal study on 'Cooperation among workers in the #informal economy: A focus on #homebasedworkers & #wastepickers ' which surveyed their #coops & wider #SSE organizations

ilo.org/global/topics/…

Waste picking activity at Sabzi Mandi Road GM Abad.
#cleanfaisalabad #wastemanagement #WastePickers #CleanAndGreenPakistan
LG&CD Department Waqas Amjad ( محترم ) Bilal Feroze Joiya Chief Secretary Punjab

We are not doing this because we love handling plastic but to feed our families and keep our environments clean #JustTransition #wastepickers #PlasticsFuture2023 Revolution Plastics

🔴The International Labour Conference #ILC2023 adopted the conclusions of the General Discussion Committee on a Just Transition.

🇧🇷 Min of Labour very supportive of #wastepickers

Very relevant for the #plasticstreaty 🧵

READ: ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/…