♻️ 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 /4end

✊ it presents 70 cases of waste-related #conflicts involving waste pickers, collected with the contribution of more than 50 activists and researchers from all over the world, the ejatlas.org, the IAWP @globalrec.bsky.social and WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing /3

This edited volume explores how the modern waste management policies of #wastecapitalism marginalise informal recyclers across the Global South - and how waste pickers resist through grassroots organising and #environmentaljustice struggles /2

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 🧵⤵️