The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 32 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Despite sustained public protests and lawsuits against the Timarpur-Okhla waste-to-energy incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar, the beginning of trial runs this January 2 has invited the i...
BAGUIO City Government officials are now studying the possibility of selling recyclable wastes collected in the barangays. This is to recoup increasing solid waste management and g...
PUNE: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has failed to spread awareness and ensure segregation of garbage into wet and dry waste at source. As a result, garbage coll...
Members of All India Kachra Shramik Mahasangh (AIKSM) said the government is privatising garbage collection, allowing private companies to make profit. “The government’s intent...
AHMEDABAD: After rummaging through heaps of garbage in the morning, Kapila Rathod, a 24-year-old waste-picker from Gomtipur in Ahmedabad, does a nine-to-six job for World Bank. If ...
CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation’s plan to generate electricity from garbage has been slammed by environmentalists and waste management experts. In a bid to tackle the growin...
With the fear of losing their means of living looming over them, waste pickers from across the country have opposed Delhi government’s plan to install three waste to energy plant...
PUNE: Following the breakdown of the garbage processing plant at the landfill site in Phursungi-Urali, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has instructed SWaCH (Solid Waste Collec...
POR FAVOR LEA: Carta del grupo Chintan (traduzido por Google Translate) Queridos amigos y colaboradores de Chintan, Un diplomático de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos Embajada en Nueva...
PLEASE READ: Letter from Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group Dear Friends and Supporters of Chintan, A UAE Embassy diplomat in Delhi forcibly impounded the cycle ricksh...
For the last five years, Manubhan, 18, and his brother Pramod, 16, have been up at the crack of dawn heading for houses and restaurants to collect recyclable items. They venture in...
DURBAN – The big red bindi, the green glass bangles and the colorful sari notwithstanding, Suman More appears frail, tired and a little overwhelmed by all the hustle and bus...
November 24, 2011 Making a positive stride to represent their marginalised community at the international level, two waste pickers from Maharashtra – Suman More from Pune a...
November 22, 2011 Pune wastepicker Suman More will be heading to South Africa this weekend to participate in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an inte...
India has introduced a new law on plastic waste. The new law incorporates Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastics waste management and mentions the inclusion of waste p...
View this movie at cultureunplugged.com Full Circle is a short documentary about KKPKP (trade union of waste pickers) and its work. The documentary follows the women of KKPKP, an...