“Providing better health services for waste workers” (Practical Action)
Nepal – 14 Feb 2012 – Large numbers of people in the developing world rely on other people’s waste to make a living. In the Kathmandu valley of Nepal nearly 15,000 pe...
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
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“Health insurance for unorganised sector too” (Indian Express)
India – 13 Feb 2012 – The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana is set for a big expansion, with the Prime Minister’s Office clearing extension of the health insurance schem...
“Waste Business” (Express India)
India – 12 Feb 2012 – An interest in waste management is shaping into a full-fledged business venture for three friends at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)....
“Waste to Energy Plants in Delhi destroying Waste Picker Livelihoods and harming the environment” (Storify)
India – 9 Feb 2012 – Waste to Energy is the new craze in waste management in India. Fueled by the accessibility of carbon credit financing, these plants are not only en...
“Finding ‘Life, Death And Hope’ In A Mumbai Slum” (WBUR)
India – 8 Feb 2012 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years in Mumbai’s Annawadi slum to do research for her new book, Behind...
“A Decent Life Is the Train That Hasn’t Hit You” (Slate)
India – 6 Feb 2012 – Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer, has many ways of illuminating the people she writes about. The most impor...
“‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ by Katherine Boo” (Boston Globe)
India – 5 Feb 2012 – I read Pulitzer-winner Katherine Boo’s book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,’’ first with discomfort, then moral outrage, and later with a ...
“City of Lost Children” (Wall Street Journal)
India – 4 Feb 2012 – Katherine Boo has made a career out of being invisible. In articles about welfare, teenage pregnancy and unemployment in urban America, she achieve...
“Now get Rs 2 per kg of dry waste” (IBN Live)
India – 3 Feb 2012 – BANGALORE: Next time when you throw dry waste outside, think twice. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will pay you `2 per kilo of dry waste...
Appeal for Support: More than 500 slum huts gutted near Ghazipur fire (photos included)
India – 31 Jan 2012 – There was a huge fire yesterday (31st January) at Ghazipur Dairy Farm, near landfill (Delhi-UP border) at 3:00 am early morning. More than 500 sl...
“The Waste Pickers’ Oral Histories” (The Audioboo Blog)
India – The interviews took place with the help of waste picker organisations in some of India’s biggest cities (Delhi, Chennai, Bangaluru and Pune), amid the constant honk...
“Rag-pickers to get health benefits under Arogyasri” The Hindu
India – 27 Jan 2012 – Hundreds of rag-pickers gathered at the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike on Thursday, where they were given identity cards by the civic body. A ...
“Pune: A (Nearly) Waste-Free City” (MIT Public Service Center)
India – 26 Jan 2012 – Until now, we’ve spent the majority of our time exploring upstream agricultural supply chains – learning about what happens to food between fa...
“Sifting Through Rubble” (National Geographic)
Philippines – 25 Jan 2012 – Young children work without masks or gloves, and sometimes they are not even wearing shoes as they sift through charcoal in search of nails ...
SWaCH Newsletter – Issue 2 – January 2012
Greetings from SWaCH! It is with great pleasure that we present to you the second issue of the SWaCH quarterly newsletter. swach-newsletter2 Warm Regards, Manisha Desai +919765405...
“A waste of an opportunity” (Business Standard)
India – 21 Jan 2012 – Here are two models for solid waste disposal in two major cities — Kolkata and Pune. Kolkata has a history of garbage lying on streets, with a b...
“Waste-to-energy units are flops” (The Hindu)
India – 21 Jan 2012 – Chennai Corporation must adopt a decentralised approach to manage the solid waste generated in the city instead of setting up facilities to produc...
Press release: Rally Against Delhi’s Okhla Waste to Energy Incinerator on Jan 15 (ToxicsWatch)
Delhi – Jan. 15, 2012 Rally Against Okhla Waste to Energy Incinerator on January 15, 2012 Time: 12.00 onwards Date: January 15, 2012 VENUE: Pocket A Sukhdev Vihar DDA Flats F...
“Waste no trash” (Business Standard)
PUNE – Jan. 15, 2012 Keeping garbage close can be useful. A project in Katraj, Pune’s largest ward, shows how; and it will soon apply across the city. In Pune, garbage is b...
“Number of Ragpickers in Pakistan rises due to growing poverty & hunger” (Alishnara Foundation)
The number of ragpickers in Pakistan is on the rise due to growing poverty, hunger and joblessness. Presently more than 35,000 ragpickers, the majority of them children, earn their...