Hoy es el Día Mundial del Reciclaje. Exequiel Estay, líder del Movimiento Nacional de Recicladores de Chile y amigo de Red Mi Voz nos habla de resiliencia y de la vocación de un reciclador.

ASUNCIÓN - "I go out with my cart and collect plastic bottles, cardboard, paper, plastic bags; that is my work," said Laura Cardozo, proud member of a recycling group that works the Paraguayan capital's streets.

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) and Pesticide Action Network Latin America (RAPAL) sent a letter to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador, Eng. Herman Rosa Chávez, expressing deep concern over the possibility of burning waste with the pesticide toxaphene in cement kilns operated by the local company CESSA, a local subsidiary of Holcim.

Copenhagen, 7 December 2009 – Fifteen million people worldwide make a living from waste picking. They collect, sort, clean and in some cases, process these recyclables, returning them to industry as an inexpensive and low-carbon raw material. Wastepickers are incredibly efficient recyclers – and can achieve recycling rates higher than 80%. Their recycling work reduces emissions up to 25 times more than incineration does. Wastepickers significantly reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions through recycling rates, and could further reduce emissions given proper support.

10 reasons why gasification, pyrolysis & plasma incineration are not “green solutions”