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Undocumented immigrants

Immigrants trapped in illegality

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by Nyasha Bhobo

Informal business

Hard working female head porters in Ghana

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by Dasmani Laary

Environmental destruction

Tackling illegal mining in Ghana

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by Dasmani Laary

Livelihood

In Zimbabwe, women earn a living by selling quelea birds

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe
Informal waste pickers at work in the Dandora dumpsite. Nairobi’s waste management still depends heavily on them.

Megacity

How Nairobi fights its waste

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by Alba Nakuwa
Distributed by Amazon: sal-leaf plates.

Safe disposal

Sal leaves: a traditional South Asian alternative to plastic

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
A woman collecting usable items on a landfill on the outskirts of Mexico City in 2016.

Garbage

How Mexican landfills become ganglands

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Informal Indonesian waste picker.

Our view

Appreciating the value of waste

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
An informal waste picker in Puerto Carreño, Colombia. Many marginalised groups such as indigenous peoples earn their living like this.

Waste management

Circular economy is an opportunity for society

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by Sabine Schwab
by Ellen Gunsilius
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