“…The study is empirically informed by the Recycling Networks & Waste Governance international research projects, involving a large multidisciplinary team of international researchers and students that examine waste governance and grassroots innovations developed by WPOs and networks in different parts of the world. In 2018, the multinational research team conducted surveys with more than 100 waste picker organizations (WPOs) in Argentina, Brazil, Kenya, Nicaragua and Tanzania, examining the history and characteristics of these initiatives, their governance structures, funding and equipment situations, types of work conducted, characteristics of the workers and the working conditions, network relations, and general challenges and innovations of WPOs (Kain, Zapata, de Azevedo, ,Carenzo, Charles, Gutberlet, Reynosa and Zapats Campos, 2022). The study also included 100 in-depth interviews with a selection of WPO members, with key informants in local governments and with other waste governance actors.…”