Informal Workers
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Reclaimers bemoan loss of livelihoods
About 140 waste pickers, who had spent years recovering recyclables from a landfill site, say they were given just a day’s notice that it would close
South Africa and other countries ignore waste reduction in climate plan
‘If plastic were a country, it would already be the fifth-largest emitter in the world’
Covid kills a decade of employment growth in SA
The self-employed were nearly three times less likely to work during the hard lockdown, economists found