Safai Karmachari Corporation Includes Waste Pickers as Target Group
National Safai Karmachari Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC) has decided to include wastepickers as target group for providing financing and self-development skills. Th...
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
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Category: Laws and Legislation
Waste pickers in India are recognized in new government rules
There is good news for waste pickers. The lakhs of nondescript women with a waste-bag hung over their shoulders, collecting garbage from roads and dumpsites is a common sight acros...
A Bangalore waste picker appeals for recognition at the UN
Indira, a waste picker from Bangalore, made a passionate plea to world governments for recognizing the contributions of waste pickers during an event organized on the sidelines of ...
Waste narratives: Demand for recognition, inclusion and protection
Waste narratives: Demand for recognition, inclusion and protection (indiatimes.com) by Suraksha P. 06/02/2016 NEW DELHI: Alliance of Indian Wastepickers, a national network of 35 o...
The Waste Side
Fact and fiction met poignantly at an event organised to discuss the concerns of waste pickers An evening titled ‘Waste Narratives’ was recently held at the India Habitat Centr...
Hasiru Dala invites you for the Hasiru Habba, 2016
Hasiru Dala invites you for the Hasiru Habba, 2016 – an annual gathering of wastepickers and informal waste collectors from all over Bangalore and neighboring cities. More than a...
Waste reuse and recycling remains a pending challenge for the progressive model in Uruguay
One year after the third consecutive Frente Amplio’s national government, we still cannot envisage from the leading authority on environmental issues, the National Directorate fo...
Recycling in the Dominican Republic: Inclusion of waste pickers in waste management systems
In the Dominican Republic, we are approximately between 5.500 and 6000 working with recycling waste materials in landfill sites, transfer stations and in the streets. Even though w...
Revised Solid Waste Management Rules Mandate Inclusion of Waste pickers in India!
The recently released Solid Waste Management Rules in India, 2016 are a matter of celebration. They acknowledge the contribution of waste pickers. Prescriptions are made for the ...
A victory for the organized waste pickers of Ecuador
“Compañero is one who stands with you!” This is how Laura Guanoluisa, the leader RENAREC (Ecuadorian National Waste Pickers Network), began her address. The important event ...
Waste pickers should be included in India’s proposed pension program
The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers has submitted the following letter to Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India on 8th April, 2016 to demand that waste...
Envisioning Better Implementation of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016
The Plastic Waste Management Rules, that were notified on 18th March, 2016, clear a lot of ambiguity which was governing the management of plastic waste management in the previous ...
Inclusion of waste-pickers in proposed Solid Waste Management Rules
This letter with suggestions for the inclusion of waste picker in Solid Waste Management Rules was sent to the Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change of India by the ...
For an Inclusive Start up Policy
‘Start up’ is a buzzword of the day. On Independence Day, from Red Fort, Prime Minister Modi gave a call for ‘Stand up India, Start up India’. He reiterated it in detail ...
Recycling Should be a Part of Solid Waste Management NAMA
The government of India is determined to deal with issues of waste mismanagement through development of a NAMA in solid waste management. However, proposals on the table focus on h...
Swach Bharat Abhiyaan & Smart Cities Mission Consider ‘Waste to Energy’ Smart Solution
Urban growth in India is going haywire. Infrastructure is crumbling; cities are choked with pollution and garbage. Majority of the urban populace has very little access to basic en...
117 children of waste pickers receive government scholarships
117 children of wastepickers in Bangalore receive scholarships worth INR 216,450. The scholarship programme is initiated by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment at the Union ...
Pimpri-Chinchwad waste pickers win minimum wage battle
The members of Kagad, Kach, Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) – wastepickers have been providing waste management services to the residents of Pimpri Chinchwad for years now. Th...
New municipal waste laws continue to exclude waste workers
New Municipal Solid Waste, e-Waste, Bio-medical Waste and Plastic Waste Draft Rules of 2015 continue to Exclude Waste Workers Date: 25 May (Thursday) 2015 Time: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm...
Initial Response of Informal Waste Workers to Waste Management Manual Draft
We are pleased that waste management—and in particular, the important roles that informal waste workers play in municipal solid waste management—is receiving needed attention from India’s central ministries. However, we are supremely disappointed in the process by which this manual has been drafted.