US EditionColombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages
- Dozens of Colombian waste pickers filled Bogotá's Bolivar Square with about 15 tons of recyclable goods as a protest against decreasing wages and tougher working conditions for scavengers.
- The demonstration was organized by 14 waste picker associations in Bogotá, where about 20,000 scavengers work long hours collecting recyclables.
- Nohra Padilla, president of Colombia’s National Association of Waste Pickers, stated, 'We want factories to pay us a fair price for the materials we collect.'
- Jorge Ospina noted that recycling plants reduced payment for each kilogram of plastic from about 75 U.S. cents to 50 cents over two months.
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Independent EspañolBy The Associated Press Chileans dressed up with their best galas for a Gay Pride parade, cricketers from Australia and the West Indies clashed on the Caribbean island of Barbados and indigenous communities in Bolivia and Ecuador commemorated the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere. Colombians who are collecting garbage to sell recycled materials later filled the capital’s main square, Bogotá, with plastic bottles to protest the fall of t…
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BOGOTÁ (AP) — Thousands of plastic bottles, aluminum cans, paper, and cardboard littered the iconic Plaza de Bolívar in the Colombian capital on Tuesday during a protest by recyclers seeking to demonstrate that without their work, the…
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June 20-26, 2025 Chileans got dressed up for a Gay Pride parade, cricket players from Australia and West Indies faced off on the Caribbean island of Barbados and Indigenous people in Bolivia and Ecuador marked the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice. Colombians who pick up trash to sell as recycled material blanketed Bogota’s main plaza with plastic bottles to protest decreasing income and tougher conditions for scavengers, and Venezuelans car…
Tens of thousands of plastic bottles covered the Plaza de Bolívar, in front of the Congress and the mayor's office, and near the Nariño Palace (Government Headquarters), in Bogotá, capital of Colombia.MORE INFORMATION: Peruvian Alpacas cheer and cheer grandmothers with depression and senile dementiaThe plastic bottles were thrown into a massive protest by the National Association of Waste Pickers to demand decent working conditions and recogniti…
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