India

Waste Picker Groups

Waste Picker Groups (25)
Aakar
Aasra Welfare Association
All India Kachra Sramik Mahasangh, Bareilly
All India Kachra Sramik Mahasangh, Delhi
Avani
Ekati Samajik, Saikshanik, Vaidyakiy, Bahu-uddeshiy Sevabhavi Sanstha
Gaddikhana Ajivika Swayam Sahayta Samuh
Hasirudala
Iainehskhem Self Help Group
Jan Vikas Society
Kachra Kamgar Union (KKU)
Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)
Kagad, Kach, Patra Kamgar Sanghatana
KKPKP Ahmednagar
KKPKP Sangli
Nari Pragati Mahila Mandal
Parisar Bhagini Vikas Sangh (PBVS)
Parisar Sakhi Vikas Sanstha (PSVS)
Safai Sena
Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
SEWA Bharat, Self Employed Womens' AssociationSEWA (all India)
Stree Mukti Sanghatana
SWaCH Pune Seva Cooperative Society
The Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW)
The Association of Ragpickers

Last updates from India

Dry waste centre and the basis of our livelihood have been destroyed (05/2023)We Speak Too webinar, by Sanitation Workers in Mumbai (09/2022)Announcement: Request for proposal to set up the National Database of Waste-pickers (10/2021)Issue Series 1 Extended Producers Responsibility and Inclusion: Brazil’s Extended Producer Responsibility and its Interface with Waste Pickers (04/2021)When the Minister read postcards written by waste pickers’ children (04/2021)Seven Reasons Why Decentralized Waste Management is Best for Emerging Economies (04/2021)Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW (07/2020)Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the waste-pickers in the times of the pandemic (05/2020)Empowering and equipping the waste workers in the Himalayan towns to fight against the pandemic (05/2020)Post- COVID 19 lockdown forecast for the informal recycling sector and suggestive interventions to help in the long term (05/2020)Suggestions for being considerate to the needs of migrant workers, single women, children and the aged in the COVID 19 relief operations (04/2020)Include waste-pickers and informal waste collectors in the INR 50 lakh insurance cover programme rolled out for the health-care workers (04/2020)COVID-19 awareness driven by wastepickers' children in India (03/2020)Fight the Battle against the Coronavirus COVID-19 (SWaCH, Pune, India) (03/2020)Informal workers of India seek safety and financial support from the national government to survive Covid 19 Pandemic (03/2020)