Too often, the zero waste workers in our community get zero respect. Check out this great video of Alejandra Leon – recycling sorter at Waste Management and worker leader of ILWU Local 6 – Sustainable Recycling • Justicia Para Recicladores campaign speaking at the “Race, Class & Ecology” series. sponsored by the group, Movement Generation. Alejandra tells her story of struggling to survive on poverty wages paid to recycling workers, yet “The work that my coworkers and I do gives us great pride because we are among the few people doing something for our planet.”
