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Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the waste-pickers in the times of the pandemic

Junaid ul Shafi | Region Asia | May 21, 2020

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...

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Empowering and equipping the waste workers in the Himalayan towns to fight against the pandemic

Team Hilldaari | Region Asia | May 16, 2020

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...

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Post- COVID 19 lockdown forecast for the informal recycling sector and suggestive interventions to help in the long term

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | May 11, 2020

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...

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Indonesian Waste-pickers Union (IPI, http://www.si-ipi.com/) President, Prispolly Lengkong gives update of waste-pickers during COVID-19 lockdown.

Indonesian Waste-pickers in a Dire Situation due to the COVID-19 Lock-down

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Apr 27, 2020

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...

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Suggestions for being considerate to the needs of migrant workers, single women, children and the aged in the COVID 19 relief operations

Nalini Shekar | Region Asia | Apr 06, 2020

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...

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Include waste-pickers and informal waste collectors in the INR 50 lakh insurance cover programme rolled out for the health-care workers

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Apr 02, 2020

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 ...

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Letter to the Prime Minister for safety of waste pickers and informal waste collectors. AIW.

Waste-picker & informal waste collectors of India seek safety measures from Indian government to safeguard against COVID-19

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Mar 23, 2020

To Shri Narendra Modi Honourable Prime Minister of India New Delhi Subject: Safety of the waste-pickers and informal waste collectors during Covid 19 pandemic. Respected Sir We the...

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Informal workers of India seek safety and financial support from the national government to survive Covid 19 Pandemic

Working People's Charter | Region Asia | Mar 23, 2020

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...

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Design considerations for Hasiru Dala’s Dry Waste Collection IMS

Charles John Mar 19, 2020

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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