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Go Green’s approach to social and economic inclusion of informal waste pickers

Go Green’s approach to social and economic inclusion of informal waste pickers Up to 90% of the recycled paper, plastic and metal is collected by the informal waste pickers in North Macedonia. The entire waste management system relies on these invisible worker bees. When we say invisible, it is actually seen from the eyes of the system. There is no formal trace of a transaction and everything goes in cash. But for the regular citizen, everyone can witness thousands of waste pickers, mostly from the Roma community, that are putting their hands and heads in the containers every day, looking for plastic bottles or other valuable resources. This has been their professional occupation for decades. Go Green has started working on the issue of green jobs in 2017. It started with the green jobs potential in the energy sector and the lack of workers in the construction sector (which is also a huge social and economic challenge), but it ended up in exploring and finding solutions for in