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A UN treaty to reduce plastic pollution could be a game changer for the environment. Activists who collect plastic for a living want to make sure it takes their jobs into account.

A UN treaty to reduce plastic pollution could be a game changer for the environment.

A U.N. treaty to reduce plastic pollution could be a game changer for the environment. Activists who collect plastic for a living want it to be fair.

‘An original and insightful contribution to rethinking the social contract. Instead of prescribing from above, the authors redirect attention to the perspective of informal workers, to their needs, demands and agency, and to the new realities of informality exposed by COVID-19, digital employment, and new forms of collective action.’ – Kate Meagher, London School of Economics, UK

As part of efforts, to help address Ghana's sanitation challenges  Green Waste Pickers’ Cooperative Society Limited has been inaugurated in the Greater Accra Region. The inauguration was followed by an official swearing -in of a seven-member leadership of Green Waste Pickers’ Cooperative. The Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies  Ms. Edith…