Waste Pickers, the Missing Piece in India’s EPR Puzzle
The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) has released new research into Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and the impacts it has on Indian waste pickers. Haris Najib, the...
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The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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We Speak Too webinar, by Sanitation Workers in Mumbai
A multi-city series of curated seminars — ‘We speak too, by Sanitation Workers’, co-organised by Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and the Alliance of Indian ...
Announcement: Request for proposal to set up the National Database of Waste-pickers
Deadline for submission of Request for Proposal extended to 10th November 2021 1. Background The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers (AIW) is setting up a national database of waste...
Extended Producers Responsibility Webinar with AIW
The Alliance of Indian Waste pickers (AIW) invites you to the National Consultation on Extended Producers Responsibility. in this webinar the panelists will include representatives of waste pickers and industry, who will be sharing their reflections on this document as well as providing recommendations and offering suggestions on the inclusion of waste-pickers and other informal waste collectors.
International Live streaming: Waste Pickers Organization in the World
The National movement of Brazilian Waste Pickers (MNCR), together with the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, will bring together waste pickers from around the world to discuss stra...
Daughters & Sons of Shillong’s Waste Pickers Got Training and Salaried Jobs in Recycling Industry
The daughters and sons of waste-pickers from Shillong, a provincial capital city in the North Eastern State of India, Meghalaya, got placement after rigorous training in plastics m...
The Manual for Social Entitlements for Waste Pickers is out by Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers
Informal waste recyclers (waste pickers and informal waste collectors) constitute 1% of urban population in developing nations as per the World Bank. As an occupational group, wast...
Alliance of Indian Waste pickers announces their 3 Month Fellowship
The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers (AIW) secretariat and its members have been receiving requests from activists, concerned citizens and civil society organizations to mentor for...
Round-Table Discussion on Inclusion of Waste Pickers in Solid Waste Management of Delhi
On March 21, 2018 took place a round-table to discuss the inclusion of waste pickers in Solid Waste Management of Delhi organized by the Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW), ...
Safai Karmachari Corporation Includes Waste Pickers as Target Group
National Safai Karmachari Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC) has decided to include wastepickers as target group for providing financing and self-development skills. Th...
Waste pickers should be included in India’s proposed pension program
The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers has submitted the following letter to Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India on 8th April, 2016 to demand that waste...
Envisioning Better Implementation of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016
The Plastic Waste Management Rules, that were notified on 18th March, 2016, clear a lot of ambiguity which was governing the management of plastic waste management in the previous ...
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...
SWACH Newsletter – Issue 5 – November 2012
Check out SWaCH waste pickers’ cooperative November 2012 Newsletter. Read articles about waste pickers working with scrap shops, pianist Kimball Ghallager making music with SWaCH, E-waste programs in schools across India, waste pickers keeping Pune’s rivers clean, and much more. Download the SWaCH Newsletter Issue 5 in English or in Marathi.
Update from Asia
This information was compiled from the Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers newsletters from May and August 2012: The Consultation of Urban Local Bodies on Integrating waste pickers i...