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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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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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Panchkula’s Wastepickers Left Dumpsite and Now Do Composting

Kabir Arora | Region Asia-Pacific | 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-Pacific | 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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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-Pacific | 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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Lanzamiento de la planta de madera plástica de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá

The Waste Pickers’ Association of Bogota Launches the Plastic Wood Plant

Federico Parra | Region Latin America | Jan 14, 2019

On Friday, December 14, 2018, in Bogota, the plastic wood processing plant of the Waste Pickers’ Association of Bogota was launched. This event is of special importance for all t...

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