“Valuing The Work of Waste Pickers” (virtual program)
February 17, 2021 at 07:00 pm
Start Time: 7:00 pm || End Time: 8:00 PM
Free
60-minute online program hosted by C.H. Booth Library, with Christine Hegel discussing her ethnographic and politically-engaged research with “canners” in New York City, focusing on factors that drive people to stigmatized work like waste picking, environmental benefits derives from street level resource recovery, and new efforts to recognize waste pickers as stakeholders in emerging extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies, register for virtual access link; 203-426-4533, chboothlibrary.org.
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