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Waste Picker Groups
Last updates from India
Empowering India's Waste Pickers: Nationwide Campaign Seeks Rights Recognition on International Waste Pickers Day (02/2024)Waste Pickers, the Missing Piece in India’s EPR Puzzle (10/2023)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)
Law reports overview
IndiaLaws
- Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 1989
- Bio Medical Waste Management Rules, 1998
- Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000
- Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001
- Environment Protection Act, 2006
- National Environment Policy 2006
- Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011
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