A new report from the International Labour Organisation outlines a set of propositions on how countries should go about formalising the informal economy. The report provides the basis for negotiations ...

Informal miners, recyclers and waste workers help power the shift to renewable energy, yet their labour is often overlooked in sustainability debates. In the scrapyards of Agbogbloshie in Ghana, ...

Waste economies encompass the systems through which discarded materials are collected, sorted, traded and transformed into resources. At their core, these economies depend heavily on informal ...