IAWP • International Alliance of Waste Pickers
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The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries.
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📣 People Driving the Circular Economy ♻️
At today’s session on integrating waste pickers into aluminium recycling, we highlight their key role in keeping global recycling rates high — yet they remain excluded from climate finance and policy spaces.
🗓 13 Nov • 16:30–17:30 EST
📍 Belém, Brazil
At today’s session on integrating waste pickers into aluminium recycling, we highlight their key role in keeping global recycling rates high — yet they remain excluded from climate finance and policy spaces.
🗓 13 Nov • 16:30–17:30 EST
📍 Belém, Brazil
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📣 People Driving the Circular Economy ♻️
At today’s session on integrating waste pickers into aluminium recycling, we highlight their key role in keeping global recycling rates high — yet they remain excluded from climate finance and policy spaces.
🗓 13 Nov • 16:30–17:30 EST
📍 Belém, Brazil
At today’s session on integrating waste pickers into aluminium recycling, we highlight their key role in keeping global recycling rates high — yet they remain excluded from climate finance and policy spaces.
🗓 13 Nov • 16:30–17:30 EST
📍 Belém, Brazil
🌍💚 At #COP30, waste pickers & allies call to fund people, not incinerators.
Zero waste systems — composting, reuse, recycling — are fast & affordable ways to cut methane & create jobs.
📍 Belém | 🕔 Nov 11, 5PM BRT
🔗 Watch live: unfccc.int/cop30/schedule
#IAWP #GAIA #ZeroWaste
Zero waste systems — composting, reuse, recycling — are fast & affordable ways to cut methane & create jobs.
📍 Belém | 🕔 Nov 11, 5PM BRT
🔗 Watch live: unfccc.int/cop30/schedule
#IAWP #GAIA #ZeroWaste
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🌍💚 At #COP30, waste pickers & allies call to fund people, not incinerators.
Zero waste systems — composting, reuse, recycling — are fast & affordable ways to cut methane & create jobs.
📍 Belém | 🕔 Nov 11, 5PM BRT
🔗 Watch live: unfccc.int/cop30/schedule
#IAWP #GAIA #ZeroWaste
Zero waste systems — composting, reuse, recycling — are fast & affordable ways to cut methane & create jobs.
📍 Belém | 🕔 Nov 11, 5PM BRT
🔗 Watch live: unfccc.int/cop30/schedule
#IAWP #GAIA #ZeroWaste
🌎♻️ IAWP Delegation at COP30 – Belém, Brazil 🌿
Representing decades of grassroots organization and climate leadership, this team brings the voice of millions of waste pickers to the global stage.
Representing decades of grassroots organization and climate leadership, this team brings the voice of millions of waste pickers to the global stage.
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🌎♻️ IAWP Delegation at COP30 – Belém, Brazil 🌿
Representing decades of grassroots organization and climate leadership, this team brings the voice of millions of waste pickers to the global stage.
Representing decades of grassroots organization and climate leadership, this team brings the voice of millions of waste pickers to the global stage.
🇲🇱 Women leading change in Mali!
The Minister for Women, Children & Families gathered civil society leaders to address the national crisis.
💪🏾 The Malian Association of Waste Sorters (AMTDDO) — an affiliate of the IAWP — joined with 15+ women raising their voices for resilience & solidarity.
The Minister for Women, Children & Families gathered civil society leaders to address the national crisis.
💪🏾 The Malian Association of Waste Sorters (AMTDDO) — an affiliate of the IAWP — joined with 15+ women raising their voices for resilience & solidarity.
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
🇲🇱 Women leading change in Mali!
The Minister for Women, Children & Families gathered civil society leaders to address the national crisis.
💪🏾 The Malian Association of Waste Sorters (AMTDDO) — an affiliate of the IAWP — joined with 15+ women raising their voices for resilience & solidarity.
The Minister for Women, Children & Families gathered civil society leaders to address the national crisis.
💪🏾 The Malian Association of Waste Sorters (AMTDDO) — an affiliate of the IAWP — joined with 15+ women raising their voices for resilience & solidarity.
🌿♻️ Belém opens its 1st public composting system with waste pickers — just before #COP30!
Waste pickers from MNCR, IAWP, & Red Lacre will join the opening + panel “The COP30 Legacy for Waste Pickers.”
🗓️ Nov 9 | 9:30–17h | Belém (PA)
📍 CONCAVES HQ
Waste pickers from MNCR, IAWP, & Red Lacre will join the opening + panel “The COP30 Legacy for Waste Pickers.”
🗓️ Nov 9 | 9:30–17h | Belém (PA)
📍 CONCAVES HQ
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🌿♻️ Belém opens its 1st public composting system with waste pickers — just before #COP30!
Waste pickers from MNCR, IAWP, & Red Lacre will join the opening + panel “The COP30 Legacy for Waste Pickers.”
🗓️ Nov 9 | 9:30–17h | Belém (PA)
📍 CONCAVES HQ
Waste pickers from MNCR, IAWP, & Red Lacre will join the opening + panel “The COP30 Legacy for Waste Pickers.”
🗓️ Nov 9 | 9:30–17h | Belém (PA)
📍 CONCAVES HQ
🌍 Tomorrow is a historic day! Waste pickers & other Popular Movements meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, continuing Francis’s legacy for #LandHousingWork.
IAWP will be represented by President Severino Lima Jr 🇧🇷 joining global grassroots leaders.
🗓️ Oct 23 | 4 PM Rome
📍 Paul VI Hall
IAWP will be represented by President Severino Lima Jr 🇧🇷 joining global grassroots leaders.
🗓️ Oct 23 | 4 PM Rome
📍 Paul VI Hall
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🌍 Tomorrow is a historic day! Waste pickers & other Popular Movements meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, continuing Francis’s legacy for #LandHousingWork.
IAWP will be represented by President Severino Lima Jr 🇧🇷 joining global grassroots leaders.
🗓️ Oct 23 | 4 PM Rome
📍 Paul VI Hall
IAWP will be represented by President Severino Lima Jr 🇧🇷 joining global grassroots leaders.
🗓️ Oct 23 | 4 PM Rome
📍 Paul VI Hall
📢 We’re hiring! 🌎♻️
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is looking for a Research Coordinator to lead global studies on waste pickers’ rights, livelihoods & climate justice.
🗓️ Apply by Oct 31, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/3WRag0g
#IAWP #WastePickers #Hiring #JustTransition #GlobalSouth
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is looking for a Research Coordinator to lead global studies on waste pickers’ rights, livelihoods & climate justice.
🗓️ Apply by Oct 31, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/3WRag0g
#IAWP #WastePickers #Hiring #JustTransition #GlobalSouth
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
📢 We’re hiring! 🌎♻️
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is looking for a Research Coordinator to lead global studies on waste pickers’ rights, livelihoods & climate justice.
🗓️ Apply by Oct 31, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/3WRag0g
#IAWP #WastePickers #Hiring #JustTransition #GlobalSouth
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is looking for a Research Coordinator to lead global studies on waste pickers’ rights, livelihoods & climate justice.
🗓️ Apply by Oct 31, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/3WRag0g
#IAWP #WastePickers #Hiring #JustTransition #GlobalSouth
🌎♻️ Waste pickers from Brazil, Latin America & Africa gather in Belém for the Pre-COP 30 Waste Pickers’ Meeting to build solidarity & ensure our voices shape the climate agenda.
Together we’re paving a just path to #COP30.
#IAWP #MNCR #ClimateJustice #PreCOP30
Together we’re paving a just path to #COP30.
#IAWP #MNCR #ClimateJustice #PreCOP30
October 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
🌎♻️ Waste pickers from Brazil, Latin America & Africa gather in Belém for the Pre-COP 30 Waste Pickers’ Meeting to build solidarity & ensure our voices shape the climate agenda.
Together we’re paving a just path to #COP30.
#IAWP #MNCR #ClimateJustice #PreCOP30
Together we’re paving a just path to #COP30.
#IAWP #MNCR #ClimateJustice #PreCOP30
🌎 North American Waste Pickers Exchange 🇨🇦
Reclaimers from across the continent met in Vancouver to share strategies, strengthen reclaimer-led recycling, and push for fair handling fees & dignified work ✊♻️
Together we build justice from the ground up. 💚
#WastePickers #IAWP
Reclaimers from across the continent met in Vancouver to share strategies, strengthen reclaimer-led recycling, and push for fair handling fees & dignified work ✊♻️
Together we build justice from the ground up. 💚
#WastePickers #IAWP
October 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🌎 North American Waste Pickers Exchange 🇨🇦
Reclaimers from across the continent met in Vancouver to share strategies, strengthen reclaimer-led recycling, and push for fair handling fees & dignified work ✊♻️
Together we build justice from the ground up. 💚
#WastePickers #IAWP
Reclaimers from across the continent met in Vancouver to share strategies, strengthen reclaimer-led recycling, and push for fair handling fees & dignified work ✊♻️
Together we build justice from the ground up. 💚
#WastePickers #IAWP
Thousands of reclaimers keep Johannesburg clean — now their livelihoods are at risk.
Stand with them. ✊
Sign the call to stop the landfill crisis 👇
Stand with them. ✊
Sign the call to stop the landfill crisis 👇
Stop the landfill crisis – protect our city and the environment
According to Pikitup, by this time next year, all four of its functioning landfills will be closed. It’s solution? Pay R68 million in the 2025/25 year alone, to send the city’s waste to private landfi...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thousands of reclaimers keep Johannesburg clean — now their livelihoods are at risk.
Stand with them. ✊
Sign the call to stop the landfill crisis 👇
Stand with them. ✊
Sign the call to stop the landfill crisis 👇
♻️🇮🇹 In Italy, 60,000 reuse workers rescue 200,000+ tons from waste every year — but remain invisible. ✊🏽 Their dignity can’t wait. ⚖️ The International Alliance of Waste Pickers may take the fight to the European Court of Human Rights.
Read here (italian): www.ecodallecitta.it/riutilizzo-i...
Read here (italian): www.ecodallecitta.it/riutilizzo-i...
Riutilizzo: in Italia 60mila operatori senza diritti, si valuta istanza alla Cedu - Eco dalle Città
In Italia esistono circa 60.000 operatori vulnerabili che raccolgono e rivendono beni usati garantendo un volume di riutilizzo di oltre 200.000 tonnellate annue. Tutti beni durevoli sottratti ai rifiu...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
♻️🇮🇹 In Italy, 60,000 reuse workers rescue 200,000+ tons from waste every year — but remain invisible. ✊🏽 Their dignity can’t wait. ⚖️ The International Alliance of Waste Pickers may take the fight to the European Court of Human Rights.
Read here (italian): www.ecodallecitta.it/riutilizzo-i...
Read here (italian): www.ecodallecitta.it/riutilizzo-i...
At the 2025 UN Responsible Business & Human Rights Forum in Bangkok, IAWP VP Sushila Sable amplified the voices of 40M waste pickers 🌍. She urged brands & govts to ensure a #JustTransition: recognition, protection & fair pay for those keeping recycling supply chains alive ♻️✊🏾
September 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
At the 2025 UN Responsible Business & Human Rights Forum in Bangkok, IAWP VP Sushila Sable amplified the voices of 40M waste pickers 🌍. She urged brands & govts to ensure a #JustTransition: recognition, protection & fair pay for those keeping recycling supply chains alive ♻️✊🏾
🌍✊🏾 From Accra to the world: waste picker leaders stand united, organized, and ready to fight for recognition, dignity, and rights.
♻️💪🏾 Together, we are building a global movement for justice and a circular economy that includes us all. 🌱✨
♻️💪🏾 Together, we are building a global movement for justice and a circular economy that includes us all. 🌱✨
Waste picker leaders call for recognition and inclusion at first Africa regional meeting in Accra
The first-ever Africa Regional Meeting of Waste Picker Leaders has kicked off in Accra, Ghana, bringing together more than 50
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September 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🌍✊🏾 From Accra to the world: waste picker leaders stand united, organized, and ready to fight for recognition, dignity, and rights.
♻️💪🏾 Together, we are building a global movement for justice and a circular economy that includes us all. 🌱✨
♻️💪🏾 Together, we are building a global movement for justice and a circular economy that includes us all. 🌱✨
📢 NOW LIVE at #UNRBHR2025!
♻️✊ From marginalized to recognized: Responsible sourcing pathways and a just transition for workers in material production and recycling supply chains
Link: undp.zoom.us/j/86332512561
Hear worker voices & solutions to protect 40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers.
♻️✊ From marginalized to recognized: Responsible sourcing pathways and a just transition for workers in material production and recycling supply chains
Link: undp.zoom.us/j/86332512561
Hear worker voices & solutions to protect 40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers.
September 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📢 NOW LIVE at #UNRBHR2025!
♻️✊ From marginalized to recognized: Responsible sourcing pathways and a just transition for workers in material production and recycling supply chains
Link: undp.zoom.us/j/86332512561
Hear worker voices & solutions to protect 40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers.
♻️✊ From marginalized to recognized: Responsible sourcing pathways and a just transition for workers in material production and recycling supply chains
Link: undp.zoom.us/j/86332512561
Hear worker voices & solutions to protect 40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers.
🌍♻️ Historic milestone in Accra! Over 50 leaders from 17 orgs in 11 African countries gathered for the 1st Africa Regional Meeting of Waste Picker Leaders, building solidarity, advancing gender equity & demanding recognition in the circular economy. ✊🌱 #IAWP #WastePickers
Waste Picker Leaders Hold First-Ever Africa Regional Meeting In Accra – AMC News24
Waste Picker Leaders Hold First-Ever Africa Regional Meeting in Accra
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September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🌍♻️ Historic milestone in Accra! Over 50 leaders from 17 orgs in 11 African countries gathered for the 1st Africa Regional Meeting of Waste Picker Leaders, building solidarity, advancing gender equity & demanding recognition in the circular economy. ✊🌱 #IAWP #WastePickers
🇧🇷✨ At the IAWP African Regional Meeting, H.E. Mariana Madeira, Ambassador of Brazil to Ghana, and Deputy Head of Mission Alexandre de Pádua Ramos Souto, celebrated Brazil’s Independence Week by honoring waste pickers’ fight for the environment. 🌍♻️ #IAWP #WastePickers
September 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🇧🇷✨ At the IAWP African Regional Meeting, H.E. Mariana Madeira, Ambassador of Brazil to Ghana, and Deputy Head of Mission Alexandre de Pádua Ramos Souto, celebrated Brazil’s Independence Week by honoring waste pickers’ fight for the environment. 🌍♻️ #IAWP #WastePickers
🌍✨ At the African Regional Meeting, Amadou Mbodj of Fundación Avina highlighted waste pickers’ vital role in inclusive recycling & shared Avina’s commitment to strengthening leadership, resilience & recognition across Africa. 🙌♻️ #WastePickers #IAWP
September 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🌍✨ At the African Regional Meeting, Amadou Mbodj of Fundación Avina highlighted waste pickers’ vital role in inclusive recycling & shared Avina’s commitment to strengthening leadership, resilience & recognition across Africa. 🙌♻️ #WastePickers #IAWP
📢 Sept 17 | 14:45-15:45 at #UNRBHRF2025
40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers keep global recycling & production running—but remain invisible & unprotected.
Join us to explore how brands, govts & media can fund a #JustTransition & recognize workers as essential, not expendable.
#WastePickers
40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers keep global recycling & production running—but remain invisible & unprotected.
Join us to explore how brands, govts & media can fund a #JustTransition & recognize workers as essential, not expendable.
#WastePickers
September 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📢 Sept 17 | 14:45-15:45 at #UNRBHRF2025
40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers keep global recycling & production running—but remain invisible & unprotected.
Join us to explore how brands, govts & media can fund a #JustTransition & recognize workers as essential, not expendable.
#WastePickers
40M waste pickers & 49M homeworkers keep global recycling & production running—but remain invisible & unprotected.
Join us to explore how brands, govts & media can fund a #JustTransition & recognize workers as essential, not expendable.
#WastePickers
✊ In Argentina, FACCyR’s El Amanecer de los Cartoneros is on hunger strike after transport rights were cut.
We stand in solidarity with them and call for international support to amplify their struggle.
We stand in solidarity with them and call for international support to amplify their struggle.
August 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
✊ In Argentina, FACCyR’s El Amanecer de los Cartoneros is on hunger strike after transport rights were cut.
We stand in solidarity with them and call for international support to amplify their struggle.
We stand in solidarity with them and call for international support to amplify their struggle.
♻️🌍 Despite months of pressure, governments failed to deliver the binding and ambitious treaty needed to stop plastic pollution.
💪 But the fight is not over. Waste pickers will keep demanding dignity, visibility, and a binding commitment to a Just Transition.
💪 But the fight is not over. Waste pickers will keep demanding dignity, visibility, and a binding commitment to a Just Transition.
El rol de los recicladores, clave para un tratado global contra la polución por plásticos
El reconocimiento del rol estratégico de los recicladores de base constituye el foco de los esfuerzos de las organizaciones no gubernamentales que participan en Ginebra de las arduas negociaciones par...
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August 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
♻️🌍 Despite months of pressure, governments failed to deliver the binding and ambitious treaty needed to stop plastic pollution.
💪 But the fight is not over. Waste pickers will keep demanding dignity, visibility, and a binding commitment to a Just Transition.
💪 But the fight is not over. Waste pickers will keep demanding dignity, visibility, and a binding commitment to a Just Transition.
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Thanks to @ienearth.bsky.social, @globalrec.bsky.social, @acat_akaction, @portarthurcan, and @ypanpt/@cymgunep, who worked with #justtransitionalliance to write this collective response, and thanks to EnviroNews Nigeria for publishing this article:
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Plastics treaty negotiations made achieving an inclusive just transition impossible – Groups - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy
As the INC-5.2 Global Plastics Treaty negotiations came to an end in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, August 15, 2025, affected groups aligned for justice have expressed strong disapproval of the treat...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thanks to @ienearth.bsky.social, @globalrec.bsky.social, @acat_akaction, @portarthurcan, and @ypanpt/@cymgunep, who worked with #justtransitionalliance to write this collective response, and thanks to EnviroNews Nigeria for publishing this article:
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INC5.2 ends with no Plastics Treaty — a blow to 40M waste pickers fighting plastic pollution. We demand binding Just Transition, recognition, & plastic caps. Member states must fix this process — people & planet can’t wait. #PlasticsTreaty #IAWP
Read our press release: www.bit.ly/INC52IAWP
Read our press release: www.bit.ly/INC52IAWP
August 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
INC5.2 ends with no Plastics Treaty — a blow to 40M waste pickers fighting plastic pollution. We demand binding Just Transition, recognition, & plastic caps. Member states must fix this process — people & planet can’t wait. #PlasticsTreaty #IAWP
Read our press release: www.bit.ly/INC52IAWP
Read our press release: www.bit.ly/INC52IAWP
🌍 From Geneva at the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations, waste pickers are making it clear: financing is key to justice.
Severino Lima Jr., president of the IAWP, says it loud and clear.
#WastePickers #JustTransition #CircularEconomy #EnvironmentalJustice #IAWP #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateJustice
Severino Lima Jr., president of the IAWP, says it loud and clear.
#WastePickers #JustTransition #CircularEconomy #EnvironmentalJustice #IAWP #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateJustice
August 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🌍 From Geneva at the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations, waste pickers are making it clear: financing is key to justice.
Severino Lima Jr., president of the IAWP, says it loud and clear.
#WastePickers #JustTransition #CircularEconomy #EnvironmentalJustice #IAWP #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateJustice
Severino Lima Jr., president of the IAWP, says it loud and clear.
#WastePickers #JustTransition #CircularEconomy #EnvironmentalJustice #IAWP #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateJustice
♻️🌍 From Bangalore to Dhaka, IAWP delegates Indumathi and Kulsum Begum turn waste into livelihood, and invisibility into power. At UN #PlasticsTreaty talks, they demand dignity, rights, and a Just Transition for 40M waste pickers. Report by Ravleen Kaur for The Migration Story.
Waste Pickers vs Plastic Crisis | Inside the UN Treaty Talks in Geneva
YouTube video by The Migration Story
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August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
♻️🌍 From Bangalore to Dhaka, IAWP delegates Indumathi and Kulsum Begum turn waste into livelihood, and invisibility into power. At UN #PlasticsTreaty talks, they demand dignity, rights, and a Just Transition for 40M waste pickers. Report by Ravleen Kaur for The Migration Story.
🌍♻️ Waste pickers at the #PlasticsTreaty talks in Geneva: recognition isn’t enough — we need a mandatory Just Transition.
💬 “Without waste pickers, the treaty fails.”
💬 “Recognition is justice.”
💬 “We turn waste into livelihood.”
#JustTransition #WastePickers #CircularEconomy
💬 “Without waste pickers, the treaty fails.”
💬 “Recognition is justice.”
💬 “We turn waste into livelihood.”
#JustTransition #WastePickers #CircularEconomy
August 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🌍♻️ Waste pickers at the #PlasticsTreaty talks in Geneva: recognition isn’t enough — we need a mandatory Just Transition.
💬 “Without waste pickers, the treaty fails.”
💬 “Recognition is justice.”
💬 “We turn waste into livelihood.”
#JustTransition #WastePickers #CircularEconomy
💬 “Without waste pickers, the treaty fails.”
💬 “Recognition is justice.”
💬 “We turn waste into livelihood.”
#JustTransition #WastePickers #CircularEconomy