The organizations listed in this WAW database were the result of the effort to merge in one place multiple waste picker related organizations data bases in 2014. Visit the current list of affiliates to the International Alliance of Waste Pickers.

Primary information

Language: English
Type of members: Waste picker support organization
Occupation of members: Waste collectors
Type of Organization: Non governmental organization
Organizational Reach: Local
Workplace of members: Door to door, Open, Sorting center, Street
Organization Structure: Non-governmental organization (NGO) registered under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860. Run by a board.
Objectives: Social equity, encourage sustainable practices, contribute to cleaning the environment, improve waste picker living conditions, improve waste picker working conditons, capacity building, awareness raising, fight against discrimination and poverty, recognition of waste pickers, improve livelihoods
Funding: Donor funded
Women composition: Mostly men collect waste, while women work as domestic workers and help men segregate waste at home.

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Benefits

Services

Activities: Collecting waste, Composting, New items made from collected materials, Recycling, Sorting waste
Sorting Spaces: Sorting center
Treatmet of organic materials: Composting

Complementary Information

Information source: WORD 9/7/2010, ASIA 2013

Comments / Narrative

Chintan addresses issues of sustainable consumption and social equity. Seeks to improve consumption choices and practices that benefit both our health and our environment and encourage practices that are sustainable and do not burden the poor. Mission: To work with the Informal sector involved in municipal solid waste management in enhancing their living as well as working conditions and assisting them to optimize their skills and role in the waste management sector as well as build their capacity to contribute to a healthy, safe society. To educate citizens about their environmental duties and means of implementing them. To help and encourage children of various strata of society to determine their own role in environmental preservation. To help the Informal waste sector to be able to build social defence mechanisms in order to move from being marginalized to mainstream participants and contributors to the social and economic development of the country. To find suitable means of involving the Informal waste sector in formal, organized delivery of waste related services in India . To stem biodiversity loss taking place through the inflow of toxics through research, campaigning and advocacy. To identify and reduce the manufacture and consumption of hazardous wastes and materials through research, campaigning and advocacy. To facilitate the rationalization of packaging used through better laws and material consumption as well as education and fiscal steps.

Contact information

Available information upon request.

Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

New Delhi, India