Stories tagged Waste-pickers

trash warehouse in Bogota

How Bogotá’s Waste Pickers Reinvented Their Jobs for a Modern City

After the Suits Leave, Another Hong Kong Economy Thrives

Stunning Mural Stretches Across 50 Buildings in Cairo

For Trash-Pickers, Respect Is a Strong Medicine

Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

The Slum That Became Manila’s Recycling Champ

Can Two Advertising Executives Solve Medellín’s Landfill Crisis?

Lacking a Formal Recycling System, Phnom Penh Relies on Its Waste-Pickers

Durban Embraces Its Waste-Pickers, and the City Spiffs Up

THE HUMAN CITY: Five São Paulo Advocates to Watch

Dispatches from Rio: The Sights and Smells of an Unsustainable Megacity

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