How Waste Pickers Are Reshaping the Global Plastics Treaty
A thread 🧵
✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
A thread 🧵
✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
September 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
How Waste Pickers Are Reshaping the Global Plastics Treaty
A thread 🧵
✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
A thread 🧵
✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
Our new book is finally out!! 🚨📚
➡️ "Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in The Global South"
It was a privilege to work with @federicodemaria.bsky.social and Lucia Fernandez on this edited volume exploring the marginalisation and the struggles of #wastepickers 🧵⤵️
➡️ "Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in The Global South"
It was a privilege to work with @federicodemaria.bsky.social and Lucia Fernandez on this edited volume exploring the marginalisation and the struggles of #wastepickers 🧵⤵️
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Our new book is finally out!! 🚨📚
➡️ "Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in The Global South"
It was a privilege to work with @federicodemaria.bsky.social and Lucia Fernandez on this edited volume exploring the marginalisation and the struggles of #wastepickers 🧵⤵️
➡️ "Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in The Global South"
It was a privilege to work with @federicodemaria.bsky.social and Lucia Fernandez on this edited volume exploring the marginalisation and the struggles of #wastepickers 🧵⤵️
♻️ Please share, cite, and connect if you're working on waste, informality, justice, or the political economy of the environment!
#wastepickers #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalJustice #WastePickers #GlobalSouth #EcologicalEconomics #WasteStudies #UrbanStudies #JustTransition #ContestedWaste
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#wastepickers #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalJustice #WastePickers #GlobalSouth #EcologicalEconomics #WasteStudies #UrbanStudies #JustTransition #ContestedWaste
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
♻️ Please share, cite, and connect if you're working on waste, informality, justice, or the political economy of the environment!
#wastepickers #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalJustice #WastePickers #GlobalSouth #EcologicalEconomics #WasteStudies #UrbanStudies #JustTransition #ContestedWaste
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#wastepickers #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalJustice #WastePickers #GlobalSouth #EcologicalEconomics #WasteStudies #UrbanStudies #JustTransition #ContestedWaste
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1/ 🚨On Day 5 of #PlasticsTreaty talks, Greenpeace was outside the UN along with 🌎civil society, scientists, wastepickers, youth, Frontline and Indigenous voices from around the world, calling out governments for derailing treaty negotiations!
#INC5-2
#INC5-2
August 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
1/ 🚨On Day 5 of #PlasticsTreaty talks, Greenpeace was outside the UN along with 🌎civil society, scientists, wastepickers, youth, Frontline and Indigenous voices from around the world, calling out governments for derailing treaty negotiations!
#INC5-2
#INC5-2
Last month, a team of our canners, staff, & board travelled to Vancouver to exchange with fellow members of the North American Alliance of Wastepickers (NAWPA): Binner's Project, Groundscore Association, & Coop Les Valoristes. A great week full of sharing ideas & building solidarity!
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Last month, a team of our canners, staff, & board travelled to Vancouver to exchange with fellow members of the North American Alliance of Wastepickers (NAWPA): Binner's Project, Groundscore Association, & Coop Les Valoristes. A great week full of sharing ideas & building solidarity!
SiPeng with @C4Center speaks about the need for the #PlasticsTreaty to cover #wastetrade provisions that are not covered under the #BaselConvention and better text to protect #wastepickers -
📍@GAIAnoburn #INC52 press conference
📍@GAIAnoburn #INC52 press conference
August 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
SiPeng with @C4Center speaks about the need for the #PlasticsTreaty to cover #wastetrade provisions that are not covered under the #BaselConvention and better text to protect #wastepickers -
📍@GAIAnoburn #INC52 press conference
📍@GAIAnoburn #INC52 press conference
Excellent initiative.
#GreenJobs
#GreenWork
#WasteCollection
#WastePickers
#ProPoor
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GreenJobs
#GreenWork
#WasteCollection
#WastePickers
#ProPoor
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Waste collection is green work’: how a pro-poor partnership created jobs and cleaned a city
A cooperative in Pune, India, is diverting waste from the landfill while also alleviating poverty
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On Ground Score's podcast American Wastepickers in 2025, Becky said:
"I would like people to reassess the value of the items that they're throwing away, just like I would like society to reassess the value of the people that we tend to throw away because we don't see the value that they have."
"I would like people to reassess the value of the items that they're throwing away, just like I would like society to reassess the value of the people that we tend to throw away because we don't see the value that they have."
Rebecca Lange, Dumpster Diver
American Wastepickers · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
On Ground Score's podcast American Wastepickers in 2025, Becky said:
"I would like people to reassess the value of the items that they're throwing away, just like I would like society to reassess the value of the people that we tend to throw away because we don't see the value that they have."
"I would like people to reassess the value of the items that they're throwing away, just like I would like society to reassess the value of the people that we tend to throw away because we don't see the value that they have."
🤝🏽 #DomesticWorkers, #StreetVendors, #WastePickers, and #HomeBasedWorkers united towards rights-based #formalization. This is what #CollectivePower looks like!✊🏽
#ILC2025
#DecentWork
#ILC2025
#DecentWork
June 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
🤝🏽 #DomesticWorkers, #StreetVendors, #WastePickers, and #HomeBasedWorkers united towards rights-based #formalization. This is what #CollectivePower looks like!✊🏽
#ILC2025
#DecentWork
#ILC2025
#DecentWork
❌❌❌❌❌ Community consultation is insufficient, and complaints of harm are being made. In fact, claims that credits uplift the lives of wastepickers do not stand up. It further legitimises #wastecolonialism and place the burden for global north plastic use on the global south.
November 29, 2024 at 7:38 AM
❌❌❌❌❌ Community consultation is insufficient, and complaints of harm are being made. In fact, claims that credits uplift the lives of wastepickers do not stand up. It further legitimises #wastecolonialism and place the burden for global north plastic use on the global south.
Waste pickers like Cristian Briones are holding up global recycling systems, yet they’re often left out of the conversation.
A just transition must include the workers already doing the work.
Read the article: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#WastePickers #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice
A just transition must include the workers already doing the work.
Read the article: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#WastePickers #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice
May 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Waste pickers like Cristian Briones are holding up global recycling systems, yet they’re often left out of the conversation.
A just transition must include the workers already doing the work.
Read the article: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#WastePickers #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice
A just transition must include the workers already doing the work.
Read the article: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#WastePickers #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice
🌍 #InternationalYouthDay:
Meet @greenafricayouth.bsky.social, building zero waste communities in Ghana! Their MRF diverts waste from landfills, empowers wastepickers, & won 2024 @earthshotprize.bsky.social.
📖 Read their story in the State of Zero Waste report (p.13) ➡️ zurl.co/7GwpL ♻️
Meet @greenafricayouth.bsky.social, building zero waste communities in Ghana! Their MRF diverts waste from landfills, empowers wastepickers, & won 2024 @earthshotprize.bsky.social.
📖 Read their story in the State of Zero Waste report (p.13) ➡️ zurl.co/7GwpL ♻️
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🌍 #InternationalYouthDay:
Meet @greenafricayouth.bsky.social, building zero waste communities in Ghana! Their MRF diverts waste from landfills, empowers wastepickers, & won 2024 @earthshotprize.bsky.social.
📖 Read their story in the State of Zero Waste report (p.13) ➡️ zurl.co/7GwpL ♻️
Meet @greenafricayouth.bsky.social, building zero waste communities in Ghana! Their MRF diverts waste from landfills, empowers wastepickers, & won 2024 @earthshotprize.bsky.social.
📖 Read their story in the State of Zero Waste report (p.13) ➡️ zurl.co/7GwpL ♻️
Affaldsbjergets helte: Potentielle ofre når bæredygtigheden rykker ind
#dkgreen #dkpol #dandora #wastepickers
www.information.dk/udland/2025/...
#dkgreen #dkpol #dandora #wastepickers
www.information.dk/udland/2025/...
Affaldsbjergets helte: Potentielle ofre når bæredygtigheden rykker ind
2-3.000 kenyanske ’waste pickers’ arbejder og lever på en gigantisk losseplads i Nairobi for ringe løn og med helbredet som indsats. Med Miljøstyrelsens assistance skal genanvendelse og cirkulær tænkn...
www.information.dk
June 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Affaldsbjergets helte: Potentielle ofre når bæredygtigheden rykker ind
#dkgreen #dkpol #dandora #wastepickers
www.information.dk/udland/2025/...
#dkgreen #dkpol #dandora #wastepickers
www.information.dk/udland/2025/...
🌱 A major victory for grassroots climate solutions in Chile!
This community-led model is part of our global work to show how frontline #wastepickers can scale real climate solutions with dignity and justice.
Support more victories like this:
www.no-burn.org/donate/
#GivingTuesday #ClimateJustice
This community-led model is part of our global work to show how frontline #wastepickers can scale real climate solutions with dignity and justice.
Support more victories like this:
www.no-burn.org/donate/
#GivingTuesday #ClimateJustice
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
🌱 A major victory for grassroots climate solutions in Chile!
This community-led model is part of our global work to show how frontline #wastepickers can scale real climate solutions with dignity and justice.
Support more victories like this:
www.no-burn.org/donate/
#GivingTuesday #ClimateJustice
This community-led model is part of our global work to show how frontline #wastepickers can scale real climate solutions with dignity and justice.
Support more victories like this:
www.no-burn.org/donate/
#GivingTuesday #ClimateJustice
Nelle discariche della capitale keniana ogni giorno arrivano duemila tonnellate di rifiuti. provenienti in gran parte dai container sbarcati al porto di Mombasa dall’Europa e altri paesi extra-continentali. Raccolti e smistati da «wastepickers» per 2 dollari al giorno, senza tutele e senza diritti.
La falce e il rastrello di Nairobi | il manifesto
Africa (Internazionale) Tre milioni di persone di ogni età, il 60% dell’anagrafe cittadina, riunite a vivere in alcune delle aree urbane a più alta densità di popolazione del pianeta, con una media di...
ilmanifesto.it
March 20, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Nelle discariche della capitale keniana ogni giorno arrivano duemila tonnellate di rifiuti. provenienti in gran parte dai container sbarcati al porto di Mombasa dall’Europa e altri paesi extra-continentali. Raccolti e smistati da «wastepickers» per 2 dollari al giorno, senza tutele e senza diritti.
♻️ #REDESCA #IACHR launches a consultation for a report on #methane reduction and the protection of the human rights of #WastePickers.
📅 Deadline: July 15
📥 More info and questionnaire: www.oas.org/en/iachr/jsF...
#ClimateJustice #CircularEconomy #CorporateResponsibility
📅 Deadline: July 15
📥 More info and questionnaire: www.oas.org/en/iachr/jsF...
#ClimateJustice #CircularEconomy #CorporateResponsibility
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
♻️ #REDESCA #IACHR launches a consultation for a report on #methane reduction and the protection of the human rights of #WastePickers.
📅 Deadline: July 15
📥 More info and questionnaire: www.oas.org/en/iachr/jsF...
#ClimateJustice #CircularEconomy #CorporateResponsibility
📅 Deadline: July 15
📥 More info and questionnaire: www.oas.org/en/iachr/jsF...
#ClimateJustice #CircularEconomy #CorporateResponsibility
JUST IN: The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has obtained a preservation order against Groen Mintirho (previously Enviro Mobi), a company associated with former ANC NEC member, Pule Mabe. #SouthAfrica #CarteBlanche
IMAGES: SIU
IMAGES: SIU
November 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
JUST IN: The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has obtained a preservation order against Groen Mintirho (previously Enviro Mobi), a company associated with former ANC NEC member, Pule Mabe. #SouthAfrica #CarteBlanche
IMAGES: SIU
IMAGES: SIU
Toolkit for (women) waste workers in informal sectors by GRID Arendal including on health risks, have to avoid exposure to toxic chemicals n waste, esp when plastic is melted/burned many hazardous emissions: but wastepickers often have no alternative work, can’t protect their health. Why need #BRS
May 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Toolkit for (women) waste workers in informal sectors by GRID Arendal including on health risks, have to avoid exposure to toxic chemicals n waste, esp when plastic is melted/burned many hazardous emissions: but wastepickers often have no alternative work, can’t protect their health. Why need #BRS
Post 1/2 🌎 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations are underway in #Geneva this week and next! 📢Learn about the process and our involvement, analysis, and critiques, by following us @jtalliance.bsky.social and @ienearth.bsky.social!
#plasticpollution #inc5 #IndigenousJustTransition #wastepickers
#plasticpollution #inc5 #IndigenousJustTransition #wastepickers
August 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Post 1/2 🌎 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations are underway in #Geneva this week and next! 📢Learn about the process and our involvement, analysis, and critiques, by following us @jtalliance.bsky.social and @ienearth.bsky.social!
#plasticpollution #inc5 #IndigenousJustTransition #wastepickers
#plasticpollution #inc5 #IndigenousJustTransition #wastepickers
JTA members are in #geneva for the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty talks! We're working toward #JustTransition, centering Indigenous Peoples, frontline workers, including #wastepickers, & fenceline communities, & saying "no!" to #FalseSolutions (plastic credits & "chemical recycling")!
#plasticpollution #INC5
#plasticpollution #INC5
August 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
JTA members are in #geneva for the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty talks! We're working toward #JustTransition, centering Indigenous Peoples, frontline workers, including #wastepickers, & fenceline communities, & saying "no!" to #FalseSolutions (plastic credits & "chemical recycling")!
#plasticpollution #INC5
#plasticpollution #INC5
#wastepickers make a huge contribution to the global #circulareconomy, collecting >100 million t waste / year, mainly in the #GlobalSouth where #wastemanagement systems are lacking. Our new publication calls for increased visibility & protection for these entrepreneurs.
www.grida.no/publications...
www.grida.no/publications...
Increasing the visibility of the informal waste sector as part of a pathway towards a Just Transition | GRID-Arendal
The informal recycling sector plays a pivotal role in delivering waste management services worldwide, particularly in countries where formal waste management systems are poorly organized or non-existe...
www.grida.no
November 25, 2024 at 10:13 AM
#wastepickers make a huge contribution to the global #circulareconomy, collecting >100 million t waste / year, mainly in the #GlobalSouth where #wastemanagement systems are lacking. Our new publication calls for increased visibility & protection for these entrepreneurs.
www.grida.no/publications...
www.grida.no/publications...
Two of the nine waste cooperatives that @bvrionews.bsky.social is helping to professionalise in Rio de Janeiro have started receiving support to digitise their waste flow through the Kolekt app.
kolekt.com/news/bvrio-c...
#wastemanagement #wastepickers #recycling #circulareconomy #kolektapp
kolekt.com/news/bvrio-c...
#wastemanagement #wastepickers #recycling #circulareconomy #kolektapp
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Two of the nine waste cooperatives that @bvrionews.bsky.social is helping to professionalise in Rio de Janeiro have started receiving support to digitise their waste flow through the Kolekt app.
kolekt.com/news/bvrio-c...
#wastemanagement #wastepickers #recycling #circulareconomy #kolektapp
kolekt.com/news/bvrio-c...
#wastemanagement #wastepickers #recycling #circulareconomy #kolektapp
Stree Mukti Sanghatana's Sushila Sable shares how waste pickers are advancing organic waste management solutions that reduce methane emissions & strengthen communities.
▶Hear directly from the workers leading zero waste solutions!
#WastePickers #GoForZeroWaste #ClimateAction #CutMethane
▶Hear directly from the workers leading zero waste solutions!
#WastePickers #GoForZeroWaste #ClimateAction #CutMethane
May 28, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Stree Mukti Sanghatana's Sushila Sable shares how waste pickers are advancing organic waste management solutions that reduce methane emissions & strengthen communities.
▶Hear directly from the workers leading zero waste solutions!
#WastePickers #GoForZeroWaste #ClimateAction #CutMethane
▶Hear directly from the workers leading zero waste solutions!
#WastePickers #GoForZeroWaste #ClimateAction #CutMethane
Read about the full scope of BVRio's work in its annual report, featuring impacts of the Kolekt app, which reached 10,000 users last year, including 7500 informal #wastepickers
#circulareconomy #wastemanagement #plasticpollution #EPR
#circulareconomy #wastemanagement #plasticpollution #EPR
The BVRio Annual Report 2024 is out! We are actively contributing to global environmental protection efforts, driving initiatives that align finance, policy, and practical solutions for a climate-positive future.
Read the full report:
www.bvrio.org/wp-content/u...
#ClimateFinance #GreenEconomy
Read the full report:
www.bvrio.org/wp-content/u...
#ClimateFinance #GreenEconomy
March 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Read about the full scope of BVRio's work in its annual report, featuring impacts of the Kolekt app, which reached 10,000 users last year, including 7500 informal #wastepickers
#circulareconomy #wastemanagement #plasticpollution #EPR
#circulareconomy #wastemanagement #plasticpollution #EPR
♻️💚 This #InternationalWastePickersDay 2026 we unite in Dandora, Kenia, for Dignity, Safety & Recognition. From testimonies to a solidarity march ✊🏽 No just transition or circular economy without waste pickers 🌍✨ #JustTransition #WastePickers
February 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
♻️💚 This #InternationalWastePickersDay 2026 we unite in Dandora, Kenia, for Dignity, Safety & Recognition. From testimonies to a solidarity march ✊🏽 No just transition or circular economy without waste pickers 🌍✨ #JustTransition #WastePickers