Sustainable and Safe Recycling: Protecting Workers Who Protect the Planet
United States & Canada - Waste workers and waste pickers -Recycling is the right thing to do, but we need to make it safe for recycling workers. Recycling is a key approach for waste reduction and climate action that is used by cities across the U.S. with enormous environmental and economic benefits. But a new report finds that the actual work of sorting recycling can be unnecessarily hazardous to workers’ health and safety.

