| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/05/02, 2:18 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Wonderful end to 10 year struggle. Especially wonderful is the pride that the pickers feel in the work they do and their contribution to their society.
Nora Padilla, one of the six winners of this year’s Goldman environmental prize, dedicates her days to organising informal recyclers in the Colombian capital, where the city’s eight million inhabitants
are just now reluctantly starting to classify their garbage at source.
Waste pickers in Colombia have finally gained recognition from the state after a 10-year legal battle.Bogotá’s informal recyclers are now formally recognised as providers of a public service, and since March 2013 the city government pays them 44 dollars per ton of recyclable solid waste that they collect and transport to scrap dealers.
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