Energy Derived from Muncipal and Solid Waste is Not Renewable
Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2014 introduced in the Parliament, last year, leaves more questions than answers. The bill was listed for discussion in Monsoon session. The logjam in...
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
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.
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Nelamangala Municipal Council Unanimously Passes Resolution for Inclusion of Wastepickers
Last week, Nelamangala Town Municipal Council general body unanimously passed a resolution for inclusion of wastepickers in waste management. Nelamangala is a small town, located i...
Recycling Should be a Part of Solid Waste Management NAMA
The government of India is determined to deal with issues of waste mismanagement through development of a NAMA in solid waste management. However, proposals on the table focus on h...
Thoughts on the Process of Waste Work: Value and Precarity in Nayandahalli’s Recycling Economy
Notes from Nayandahalli Shreyas Sreenath* “Often, in the red light of a street-lamp Of which the wind whips the flame and worries the glass, In the heart of some old suburb, mudd...
Exploring Nayandahalli as an Ecosystem Where Waste is Transformed in Resource
Notes from Nayandahalli ‘Cities are engines of growth’ is an old cliché statement. For economic growth and well being of mankind they consume the resources sourced from farawa...
SWaCH & Pune Municipal Corporation Set a New Precedent for Wastepickers’ Integration
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SWaCH, a waste pickers’ cooperative for door to door collection in Maharashtra (India) has been renewed by General Body of Pune Mun...
Waste pickers are essential to successful, sustainable waste management
Safai Sena, a registered group of over 12,000 wastepickers, doorstep waste collectors, itinerant and other small buyers, small junk dealers, and other types of recyclers have sent ...
Swach Bharat Abhiyaan & Smart Cities Mission Consider ‘Waste to Energy’ Smart Solution
Urban growth in India is going haywire. Infrastructure is crumbling; cities are choked with pollution and garbage. Majority of the urban populace has very little access to basic en...
Demands of waste pickers addressed to Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka
To Hon. Shri. U. T. Khader Minister for Health and Family Welfare Vikas Soudha Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru. Memorandum Waste pickers and scrap dealers are self employed work...
1071 wastepickers enrolled in Rashtriya Swasthya Beema Yojna
Karnataka labour welfare department begins enrollment for Rashtriya Swasthya Beema Yojna -RSBY (National Health Insurance Scheme). 1071 wastepickers in Bangalore have been listed f...
117 children of waste pickers receive government scholarships
117 children of wastepickers in Bangalore receive scholarships worth INR 216,450. The scholarship programme is initiated by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment at the Union ...
Pimpri-Chinchwad waste pickers win minimum wage battle
The members of Kagad, Kach, Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) – wastepickers have been providing waste management services to the residents of Pimpri Chinchwad for years now. Th...
On Environment Day, Delhi’s waste recyclers shared their message
On Environment Day, Safai Sena, a registered organization of Delhi’s waste recyclers presented a memorandum to the Chief Minister, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal. The memorandum was to char...
New municipal waste laws continue to exclude waste workers
New Municipal Solid Waste, e-Waste, Bio-medical Waste and Plastic Waste Draft Rules of 2015 continue to Exclude Waste Workers Date: 25 May (Thursday) 2015 Time: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm...
Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers’ National Workshop, 2015
Background The Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW) is a national network coalition of membership based organizations working on organizing informal waste workers for ensuring the...
Massive fire in waste pickers’ community: appeal for help
On April 26, 2015, there was a massive fire at the waste picker’s community at Panchsheel Colony, Bhopura in Ghaziabad at around 12:30am. Over 150 shanties have been gutted altho...
Clean stations, green stations: a Swachh Bharat initiative
Chintan in partnership with the Indian Railways celebrated Earth Day on April 22nd, 2015 at the New Delhi Railway Station. The Divisional Railway Manager, Northern Railways and his...
Plastic Industry Invites, Then Throws Out Green NGO from meet
Chintan was invited to a conference of The All India Plastics Manufacturers’ Association on 7th April at the India International Centre, on NGT case on PET and Plastic...
Provide education to 100 waste picker children
Watch the video Summary The project seeks to enable children living in extremely violence-ridden, poor, and socio-culturally marginalized waste-picking community in India to reach ...
Bhopura Youth Times: The voice of waste picker children
Chintan is proud to present the Bhopura Youth Times- a newsletter put together by the wastepicker youth at Bhopura, Tila Mod, Mangal Bazaar Ghazaiabad, an area which is home to a l...