Recycling Without Recyclers Is Garbage: A Dispatch From the Heart of Iztapalapa
By Tracy L. Barnett Two weeks after my last trip to Mexico City, I boarded another night bus to the megametropolis, arriving before dawn. An Uber carried me through the half-lit streets to the home of Laura Kuri, a longtime force in the city’s environmental movement, who welcomed me with coffee, Lebanese breakfast and a […]
Waste Pickers to Recyclers: Reimagining a Scorned Sector
Waste pickers sort and sell recyclables from open-air landfills. One municipality made the position official — a move that could transform the industry. By Ena Aguilar Peláez, Global Press México. SAN LORENZO CACAOTEPEC, MEXICO — Marisol Mendoza leaves home on her motorcycle at 5:45 a.m. She rides down a brush-lined dirt road and over a […]
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