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MADSEN, Catherine. Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished Communities. in&#160; Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 2006.     A crisis of excessive waste has arisen in developing countries. Coupled with a high rate of poverty, this has created an abundant labor force of scavengers, or waste-pickers, at local dumpsites in urban areas. There has been little examination of the contributions of waste-pickers to economic growth and environmental conservation. In fact, the role of waste-picking in environmental conservation has received scant attention, in environmental and international legal literature. The paper examines the role of gender in development and the special needs and conditions of impoverished women in developing nations.  Read the article ...