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Eco-Warriors: From Waste Collectors to Community Leaders

The USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program is enabling local waste collectors to participate in programs that provide them opportunities to champion sustainable waste management practices in their communities.

While both women and men serve the community as waste collectors, many of the women in the community serve in leadership roles in the waste collectors’ organization and are the backbone of its efforts, performing much of the detail-oriented work such as cleaning and sorting the plastic that is so important to its ability to be recycled.