ACAMAR is a waste picking cooperative participating in the Inclusive Waste Recycling Program (iWrc), founded by Mike Maggio, in which SAI is a partnering organization. ACAMAR (Associação dos Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Capão Continue Reading...
iWrc
iWrc Brasil empowers worker-led recycling cooperatives, spurring new iWrc projects in Colombia, Vietnam
The Inclusive Waste Recycling Program (iWrc) program continued its successful work with waste picking cooperatives in Brazil and expanded into Colombia and Vietnam earlier this year. iWrc Brasil has successfully conducted 25 Social Continue Reading...
2020 in Review
2020 has been a tough year for nearly everyone. But, especially difficult for those who suffer most from the increasing social and economic inequality seen worldwide, many of them vulnerable workers, people with precarious employment, and Continue Reading...
SAI Newsletter December 1, 2020
At SAI, our vision is of a world where workers, businesses, and communities thrive together. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is still a long way to go to achieve this vision, exposing many vulnerabilities of the modern global Continue Reading...
Inclusive Waste Recycling Consortium (iWrc)
iWrc: Cleaning up wastepicking in Brazil
It is estimated that millions of individuals around the world work as waste pickers to support themselves and their families. Nearly everywhere, waste picking is dirty, unpredictable, and dangerous: often done by the most marginalized Continue Reading...
