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● projectActive · national · 1990
Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB): economic inclusion of traditional waste pickers
The ARB brings together cooperatives of informal waste pickers in Bogotá who, after two decades of litigation, managed to be recognized as providers of the public sanitation service in its recovery component and to be paid via the 'tarifa de aprovechamiento' (recovery tariff).
illustrative atlas image · Julia Volk / PexelsADAsociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB)NPNohra Padilla Herrera
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01 The context
It formalizes and integrates informal economy workers into the waste management system.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceWaste Pickers' Formalisation from Bogotá to Cartagena de Indias: Dispossession and Socio-Economic Enclosures in Two Colombian CitiesSustainability (MDPI), Laura Neville y Luisa Fernanda Tovar Cortés · 2023
EvidenceARB: Fighting for an Inclusive Model for Wastepicker Recycling in Bogota (Inclusive Cities Project case study)WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) · 2015