This short video tells the story of waste pickers in Bogota who worked to address their city’s garbage crisis in 2012.

The Clean Development Mechanism is poised to approve a proposal already stopped by the local community and the state government.

Port-au-Prince, HAITI – For more than two years, teams of US and Haitian businesspeople have been working on massive public-private business deal: a factory that would transform garbage from the capitol into electricity, a resource so rare in Haiti, only 30 percent of the population has access. But the project involves a technology so potentially dangerous, it has been outlawed in some cities and countries. It would also commit the state to a 30-year contract.

The story of waste management in Buenos Aires illustrates how cartoneros, or grassroots recyclers, have won legal and financial support from the city government.