Oscar Fergutz
Partnering with a social movement as a strategy for scale
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine
For millions of people, waste picking represents the last, desperate option for surviving by working, not begging. Living off people’s garbage, waste pickers are often seen as garbage themselves, excluded socially and exploited economically. Yet, paradoxically, they make a great contribution to our societies. If the world is to move towards a sustainable model of development, recycling waste will become one of its critical building blocks.
