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The Coffee Cup Revolution starts in Vancouver
The Coffee Cup Revolution. Photo: Binners project. Every week, in Vancouver, Canada, 2.6 million coffee cups are sent to landfills instead of being recycled properly. On October 16, 2017 the Binners’...
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Sure We Can’s Challenges and Hopes at the End of 2018 and Beginning of 2019
We have been revitalized, re-charged and re-energized by the recyclers’ gathering we participated in in October 2018, in Buenos Aires. Thanks to the organizers, the hosts, the fund searchers, and all...
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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2019
This past March 1st, 2019, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow recyclers who were murdered in Colombia 27 years ago. In their honor, this date became a global day in which recyclers...
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Gathering of waste pickers from Paris and New York
Ana Fernández de Luco in Sure We Can during the workshop. On September 26th, a workshop was held in New York. At the workshop, waste pickers from Sure We Can (SWC), and Samuel Le Coeur, delegate from...
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Sure we Can, organized waste pickers in Brooklyn NY, fights eviction
Sure We Can (SWC) is a community space, sustainability hub, and redemption center located in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY (USA). At our site, canners, or those who collect and redeem bottles and cans to earn...
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Ground Score, a new waste picker organization in the USA
A new waste picker association took root in the United States of America in 2019, and this year will be its first time celebrating International Waste Picker Day on March 1st. Portland, Oregon’s...
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Sure We Can in jeopardy!
SWC Entrance Sure We Can, NYC’s only non-profit redemption center, was founded in 2007 by and for canners, or those who collect and redeem deposit-marked containers to earn income. Since then, we’ve...
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Binners’ Project offers a new service: Waste Audits
Waste Audit by Binner’s Project. Throughout the pandemic, Binners’ Project (Vancouver, Canada) has continued offering waste sorting services to building, residences, and events which provide stable and...
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Waste pickers demand expansion of the Bottle Bill in NYC
Sure We Can. Bottle Bill. 2021. Informal recyclers and their allies gather outside New York City Hall to demand expansion of the state’s Bottle Bill. Josefa Marin, supported by the Canner Advocacy Task...
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Ground Score provides waste collection services for the unhoused community
Over the past year, Ground Score Association (Portland, Oregon, USA) has received multiple new contracts and grants to address two major waste issues affecting waste pickers during the COVID-19...
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