We Speak Too webinar, by Sanitation Workers in Mumbai
A multi-city series of curated seminars — ‘We speak too, by Sanitation Workers’, co-organised by Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and the Alliance of Indian ...
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Announcement: Request for proposal to set up the National Database of Waste-pickers
Deadline for submission of Request for Proposal extended to 10th November 2021 1. Background The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers (AIW) is setting up a national database of waste...
Issue Series 1 Extended Producers Responsibility and Inclusion: Brazil’s Extended Producer Responsibility and its Interface with Waste Pickers
The recycling industry since its early beginning had always relied on the work carried out by informal recycling workers in Brazil, the “catadores de materiais recicláveis” (p...
When the Minister read postcards written by waste pickers’ children
Waste pickers and other informal sector waste workers make a living collecting, sorting, recycling, and selling materials that others throw away. They contribute to local economies...
Seven Reasons Why Decentralized Waste Management is Best for Emerging Economies
The global waste crisis is rapidly growing. With waste generation estimated to increase to 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050, the effectiveness of systems that manage this waste has becom...
Reflections on EPR-based Systems Targeting Multi-Layered Plastics
Lubna Anantakrishnan The impending roll-out of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Framework seems, at face value, to be a positive step towards tackling the global plastic ...
Waste pickers and workers in the informal waste industry: The Pillars of Extended Producers Responsibility
Nalini Shekar and Kabir Arora A decade ago, the term ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ (EPR) was either found in the textbooks of Environment Sciences or in the forgotten ...
Women waste-pickers in Mussourie, a town in Himalayas, form a Self Help Group with the support of Hilldaari
A typical day of Rachna Devi, a 22-year-old waste picker in Mussoorie, a hill station in the Garhwal Himalayan range, begins with looking after her family of six, doing household c...
Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW
The Alliance of Indian Waste pickers (AIW) invites you to the National Consultation on Extended Producers Responsibility. in this webinar the panelists will include representatives of waste pickers and industry, who will be sharing their reflections on this document as well as providing recommendations and offering suggestions on the inclusion of waste-pickers and other informal waste collectors.
Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the waste-pickers in the times of the pandemic
Introduction The COVID 19 Pandemic has forced governments across the globe to shut down their residents into lockdown. In India, the lockdown was announced on the evening of 21st m...
Empowering and equipping the waste workers in the Himalayan towns to fight against the pandemic
Waste workers are a big part of this front-line brigade who is facing the threat of exposure to health hazards, in the run to make sure that the city neighbourhoods are clean and h...
Post- COVID 19 lockdown forecast for the informal recycling sector and suggestive interventions to help in the long term
1. Preference may be given to waste to energy over recycling The recycling industries across the world and in India are completely shut. The supply chains of materials for recyclin...
Indonesian Waste-pickers in a Dire Situation due to the COVID-19 Lock-down
World over the countries have enforced lockdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. This has created a lot of problems for the waste-pickers and other informal waste collect...
Suggestions for being considerate to the needs of migrant workers, single women, children and the aged in the COVID 19 relief operations
06 April 2020 To Shri B. S. Yediyurappa Honourable Chief Minister Government of Karnataka Bengaluru Subject: Suggestions for being considerate to the needs of migrant workers, sing...
Include waste-pickers and informal waste collectors in the INR 50 lakh insurance cover programme rolled out for the health-care workers
2nd April 2020 To Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman Honourable Union Finance Minister New Delhi Subject: Inclusion of sanitation workers including waste-pickers and informal waste collectors ...
During the times of COVID 19, our fundamental duties towards sanitation workers and wastepickers
Physical distancing, stocking up on sanitizers, soaps for hand-washing, masks and gloves, hoarding supplies, limiting travel, working from home may be the new normal in bein...
Informal workers of India seek safety and financial support from the national government to survive Covid 19 Pandemic
Statement of Working Peoples’ Charter on Coronavirus Crisis If India, with its brittle economy and even weaker healthcare infrastructure, is to survive the current Coronavirus pa...
A teenage life lost, due to the lack of safety measures in Slum Rehabilitation Colony
We at Hasiru Dala are deeply saddened to share the news that Shivanna, 15-year-old son of waste-pickers Venkatesh and Narsamma passed away this morning in a hospital in Tumkur. He ...
Design considerations for Hasiru Dala’s Dry Waste Collection IMS
Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCC) in Bengaluru are a recent-ish (since 2013-14) development in waste-management efforts of the city civic body BBMP: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara P...
Picking through the Memories of Women Wastepickers of Bengaluru
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...