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African Reclaimers Organisation

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Johannesburg's Reclaimers Organise 5,500 Strong to Claim Their Share of Recycling

Waste & Recycling

🇿🇦 South Africa

The street pickers who haul most of Johannesburg's recyclable packaging to market now have their own democratic union of more than 5,500 reclaimers, and they insist on being called reclaimers, not waste pickers.

5,500membersReclaimer members in and around Johannesburg
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