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Empowering India’s Waste Pickers: Nationwide Campaign Seeks Rights Recognition on International Waste Pickers Day

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers Feb 29, 2024

1st March is celebrated as International Waste Pickers Day in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed at the University of Barranquilla. For the...

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Dry waste centre and the basis of our livelihood have been destroyed

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia-Pacific | May 24, 2023

The Dry Waste Collection Centre (DWCC) in ward 177, JP Nagar (India), was set on fire on 20th May 2023. The centre is run by Kumuda, a former waste picker who put her own money int...

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We Speak Too webinar, by Sanitation Workers in Mumbai

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia-Pacific | Sep 23, 2022

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

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia-Pacific | Oct 14, 2021

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...

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Issue Series 1 Extended Producers Responsibility and Inclusion: Brazil’s Extended Producer Responsibility and its Interface with Waste Pickers

Sonia Dias | Region Asia-Pacific | Apr 09, 2021

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...

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When the Minister read postcards written by waste pickers’ children

Aditya Vyas & Shrenik Mutha | Region Asia-Pacific | Apr 02, 2021

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...

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Seven Reasons Why Decentralized Waste Management is Best for Emerging Economies

Andrew Almack | Region Asia-Pacific | Apr 02, 2021

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...

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Reflections on EPR-based Systems Targeting Multi-Layered Plastics

Lubna Anantakrishnan | Region Asia-Pacific | Mar 29, 2021

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 ...

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Waste pickers and workers in the informal waste industry: The Pillars of Extended Producers Responsibility

Nalini Shekar and Kabir Arora | Region Asia-Pacific | Mar 24, 2021

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 ...

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Women waste-pickers in Mussourie, a town in Himalayas, form a Self Help Group with the support of Hilldaari

Team Hilldaari Mar 08, 2021

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...

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

Junaid ul Shafi | Region Asia-Pacific | 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-Pacific | 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-Pacific | 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-Pacific | 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-Pacific | 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-Pacific | 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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Informal workers of India seek safety and financial support from the national government to survive Covid 19 Pandemic

Working People's Charter | Region Asia-Pacific | 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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