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Takeaways:
- Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing estimates that there are close to 10 000 waste pickers who collect containers and redeem them for money in New York City.
- Canning is access to work and it is a green job that is part of the circular economy.
- “Anyone who recycles metal, glass, plastic, or paper is helping the City meet its Zero Waste goals, and that is a good thing” said Joshua Goodman, assistant commissioner for public affairs at the Department of Sanitation in New York.
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