From the Margins to the Mainstream: Mutare Waste Pickers Push for Recognition in City’s Green Economy
By Fanuel Chinowaita Waste pickers have for years remained among the most overlooked workers in Mutare, quietly collecting recyclable materials from streets and dumpsites while facing poor working conditions, stigma and exclusion from formal economic structures. Yet their contribution to keeping the city clean and supporting the recycling industry took centre stage during a City…