Understanding waste picking integration
What is waste picker integration? What is waste picker registration? Why are they important? How do we do them? These are some of the questions that are answered below through a combination of written overviews, posters, reclaimer profiles, webinar recordings, and an Integration Toolkit. The Case Study section of this website provides in-depth exploration of practical experiences of integration.
These materials provide an overview of the Waste Picker Integration Guideline and flesh out what it means by waste picker integration (published in 2022).
Additional resources:
Waste picker integration – Waste Picker Integration Guideline (published in 2022)
Waste picker integration – Waste Picker Integration Principles (published in 2022)
Poster – 7 steps (published in 2022)
Poster – Definition of WP Integration (published in 2022)
Poster – WP Integration Principles (published in 2022)
Poster – Key points about WP integration (published in 2022)
These materials explain why waste picker integration is important, how it contributes to meeting other key government priorities and development goals, and what it means to waste pickers (published in 2022).
Additional resources:
Reclaimers & Reclaiming – Reclaimer Contributions (published in 2022)
Waste picker integration – Separation at source and integration (published in 2022)
Poster – Separation at Source and Waste Pickers (published in 2022)
Waste Picker Integration Guideline for South Africa (published in 2022)
Reclaimer profile – Ana Mabe – Organisational support and friendship (published in 2022)
Reclaimer profile – Dorah Mabe – Safe conditions (published in 2022)
Reclaimer profile – Sibongile Muthwa – Professionalizing reclaiming (published in 2022)
Reclaimer profile – Simon Ramohlokane – Sorting in a cooperative (published in 2022)
One of the most important challenges facing municipalities, industry, and waste pickers is figuring out how to implement waste picker integration. The materials in this section provide concrete guidance on issues including how to: change the ways non-reclaimers relate to reclaimers and develop integration projects; support municipal officials working on integration; create an enabling environment; integrate landfill waste pickers; integrate women waste pickers; kick-start integration; design an integration pilot project; write a Waste Picker Integration Plan; and create social plans for waste pickers (published in 2022).
Additional resources:
Waste picker integration – Municipal officials and integration (published in 2022)
Waste picker integration – Kickstarting integration (published in 2022)
Tool 5 – Key features of pilot projects (published in 2022)
Tool 6 – Waste Picker Integration Plan template (published in 2022)
Seven Steps (published in 2022)
Reclaimer profile – Eva Mokoena – Organising (published in 2022)
Webinar – Integrating landfill waste pickers (published in 2022)
Webinar – Waste picker registration (published in 2022)
Reclaimers & Reclaiming – Social plans for landfill reclaimers (published in 2022)
Waste picker integration – Enabling national environment (published in 2022)
Reclaimers & Reclaiming – Amending landfill licences to permit waste picking (published in 2022)
Waste Picker Integration Guideline for South Africa (published in 2022)
Additional resources:
Technical report on registration pilot (published in 2022)
SA Waste Picker Registration System Train the Trainer Workshop Guide (published in 2022)
SA Waste Picker Registration Campaign Manual (published in 2022)
Presentation – Reclaimer Registration Pilot Project (published in 2022)
Poster – 3 stages of the WP registration campaign (published in 2022)
Poster – EPR and WP registration (published in 2022)
World Bank – Supporting Waste Picker Integration and Registration in SA (published in 2023)
The Devi Show – Investigation into industry non-payment of South African waste pickers (published in 2024)
Waste reclaimers receive their formal registration cards (published in 2022)
Webinar – Waste picker registration (published in 2022)
This Toolkit includes quick references and checklists to remind you of some of the key actions that need to be taken as you move through the 7 Steps for Waste Picker Integration. You could print them out and hang them on your wall or put them in a quick-access folder to take to meetings on integration. Collaborative Waste Picker Integration Working Groups can use them as guides as they work through the 7 Steps. They can also be used when teaching people about the 7 Steps (published in 2022).
Additional resources:
Tool 1 – Establishing an Internal Task Team (published in 2022)
Tool 2 – Analysing existing policies (published in 2022)
Tool 3 – Checklist for meetings (published in 2022)
Tool 4 – Addressing typical problems (published in 2022)
Tool 5 – Key features of pilot projects (published in 2022)
Tool 6 – Waste Picker Integration Plan template (published in 2022)
Tool 7 – Enabling the Waste Picker Integration Plan (published in 2022)
Tool 8 – Institutionalizing the Plan (published in 2022)
Tool 9 – Checklist for M & E (published in 2022)
Tool 10 – Revise the Waste Picker Integration Plan (published in 2022)
