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Picking through the Memories of Women Wastepickers of Bengaluru

Madhuri Kamat | Region Asia | Dec 26, 2019

Five women gather in a room in the office of Hasiru Dala to talk of the life spent wastepicking. Chinnapillai (70), Sharada (60) and Aniyamma (58) have been at it for 45 years, Lak...

Organizing

Panchkula’s Wastepickers Left Dumpsite and Now Do Composting

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 29, 2019

Last year in July, I received a phone call from Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Panchkula (a town in the North Indian province of Haryana). As much as I like...

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Mangaloreans Initiate Removal of Plastic Waste from Their Coastline

Rohini Malur | Region Asia | Nov 26, 2019

When we think of marine/ocean plastic pollution, we think of now-famous images by western photographers – the seahorse coiled around a cotton bud, the turtle with a straw stu...

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The story of waste-pickers who became sanitation workers in Bhopal.

The State of Waste-pickers Turned Sanitary Workers in 2nd Cleanest City of India: Irregular Salaries, No Occupational Safety Gear and No Medical Leave

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 12, 2019

The story of the second cleanest city in India-Bhopal and those who keep the city clean. The waste-pickers turned sanitary workers (Safai Karmacharis) in Bhopal are ill-paid, salar...

Threats

Dry Waste Collection Centres in Bengaluru are a Good Start, Design Changes Need to Be Made to Make Them Function Better

Anjanee Patel, Ambrosie, Jaspreet Singh, Indha Mahoor, Nalini Shekar, Karthik Natarajan, Vishwanath C and Xiao-Dong Liu. | Region Asia | May 20, 2019

Bangalore based waste-pickers organization Hasiru Dala (India), along with researchers from an American university, undertook a research project to identify design flaws in existin...

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The learners from Shillong in CIPET Guwahati, along with other students

Daughters & Sons of Shillong’s Waste Pickers Got Training and Salaried Jobs in Recycling Industry

Georgina Jarman Lamare & Kabir Arora Mar 04, 2019

The daughters and sons of waste-pickers from Shillong, a provincial capital city in the North Eastern State of India, Meghalaya, got placement after rigorous training in plastics m...

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India’s cleanest city Indore evicting waste-pickers from work

The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers members | Region Asia | Dec 17, 2018

The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers condemns exclusion of waste-pickers in Indore. To prepare for Swachh Bharat Survey 2019 (Clean India Survey 2019), the Indore Municipal Corpora...

Denunciations

Koushlya Bai in Buenos Aires talking with FACCyR waste pickers.

Indore’s Wastepicker in Buenos Aires

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Oct 29, 2018

Koushlya Bai is a waste-picker from Indore, associated with Janvikas Society. She is participating in the exchange of the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, as a representative of A...

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Waste Management in the Industrial Township of Bengaluru

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Oct 11, 2018

Every neighbourhood in Bengaluru (India) is trying its best to manage its own waste. They in their own way are setting precedents. Earlier, we read about HSR Layout and the adventu...

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Waste-pickers Demand Inclusion in Karnataka’s Waste Management By-laws

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Aug 31, 2018

The draft by-laws put out by Directorate of Municipal Administration Karnataka has omitted discussion on waste-pickers. “We are the people in the city who have been doing this (w...

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Indore Waste Management Model is Incomplete Without Participation of Waste-pickers

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Aug 30, 2018

Letter by the Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers representatives to municipal authorities of Indore city to include waste-pickers in solid waste management of Indore city. 2nd August...

Privatization

Talking Gender: Waste-pickers Children Open Discussions on Love, Marriage & Bullying

Aruna Manjunath | Region Asia | Jul 06, 2018

Gender Sensitization Workshop in Buguri Community Library Buguri (‘Spinning top’ in Kannada) is a community library for the children of the waste-pickers currently in 4 locatio...

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Waste-pickers Demand Inclusion in Social Welfare Measures, Access to Housing and Dignity

Hasiru Dala | Region Asia | Jul 03, 2018

Memorandum submitted to Mr. U.T. Khader, Minister of Urban Development & Housing, Karnataka; Mr. R. Sampath Raj, Mayor of Bengaluru; Ms. Sowmya Reddy, Member of Legislat...

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Alliance of Indian Waste pickers announces their 3 Month Fellowship

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | May 23, 2018

The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers (AIW) secretariat and its members have been receiving requests from activists, concerned citizens and civil society organizations to mentor for...

Trainings

Diary of Summer Camp with Children of Wastepickers

Priyanka Sacheti | Region Asia | Jul 05, 2017

I got to learn about Hasiru Dala when I started volunteering with Buguri a couple of months after moving to Bangalore in January this year. Having volunteered with a community li...

Child labor and education

Swachh Mission: GVMC to Deploy Rag Pickers

Special Correspondent (The Hindu) | Region Asia | Feb 02, 2017

Vishakhapatnam is the second city in Andhra Pradesh to issue occupational identity cards of wastepickers. Issuance of occupational identity cards is a long demand of Alliance of In...

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2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers in India

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Dec 30, 2016

2016 has been quite a remarkable year and will be remembered as a benchmark period in the struggle of wastepickers for recognition. This year for the first time, updated solid and ...

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Indore Municipal Corporation Issues Occupational Identity Cards to Wastepickers

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Dec 26, 2016

Indore Municipal Corporation issued occupational identity cards to 25o wastepickers associated with Jan Vikas Society. The cards were distributed by Ms. Malini Gaur, Mayor of Indor...

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