Morocco’s overlooked waste pickers building a cleaner, fairer future
Yassine Mazouat has seen the horrors of being a waste picker; he now leads a company to bring the country's thousands of 'invisible' waste workers to decency and fair jobs
Why It Matters
Across Morocco, tens of thousands of people scrape by on the margins, sorting through garbage for survival. Informal waste pickers, many of them women and children, are essential to the country’s recycling system, yet they remain legally invisible, unprotected, and stigmatized.
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