Waste pickers in Curitiba, the third largest city in Brazil, are to have their livelihoods protected as part of a groundbreaking partnership to overhaul the whole garbage system. Their co-operatives will be equipped and trained by the private company that wins the city's waste contract, which will also deliver recyclable waste to them. In this way, their work will become an integral element of plans to divert far more garbage from landfill to recycling

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