Kabir Arora

Waste pickers and workers in the informal waste industry: The Pillars of Extended Producers Responsibility

Nalini Shekar and Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Mar 24, 2021

Nalini Shekar and Kabir Arora A decade ago, the term ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ (EPR) was either found in the textbooks of Environment Sciences or in the forgotten ...

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Panchkula’s Wastepickers Left Dumpsite and Now Do Composting

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 29, 2019

Last year in July, I received a phone call from Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Panchkula (a town in the North Indian province of Haryana). As much as I like...

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Waste Management in the Industrial Township of Bengaluru

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Oct 11, 2018

Every neighbourhood in Bengaluru (India) is trying its best to manage its own waste. They in their own way are setting precedents. Earlier, we read about HSR Layout and the adventu...

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Waste-pickers Demand Inclusion in Karnataka’s Waste Management By-laws

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Aug 31, 2018

The draft by-laws put out by Directorate of Municipal Administration Karnataka has omitted discussion on waste-pickers. “We are the people in the city who have been doing this (w...

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Status of Waste-pickers in 2nd Cleanest City in India- Bhopal

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Jul 25, 2018

‘Last year a public toilet was set up. It did not have any water connection. The tanker was supplying water. Now they have created a park around the toilet. The toilet lac...

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Waste Narratives in Bengaluru on 1st, 4th & 5th April, 2016

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Apr 03, 2016

Hasiru Dala invites you for Waste Narratives being organized at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Alternative Forum and Azim Premji University (Dates and Timing Mentioned Bel...

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COP21: Paris – Through the Eyes of Mansoor, Our Friendly Neighbourhood Scrap Entrepreneur

Meghana Joshi | Region Asia | Dec 28, 2015

Bonjour! is probably something you’d hear Mansoor, our friendly and free spirited dry waste collection entrepreneur, say the next time you meet him. Mansoor, who heads one of the...

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Reading Through the History of Waste Management and Inclusion of Wastepickers in Bengaluru

Pinky Chandran, Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 09, 2015

Anselm Rosario is a known name. Story of waste management, wastepickers’ welfare is incomplete without him. His biographical sketch is an important chapter in the history of info...

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Journey from Waste-picker to Urban Farmer- Small Steps towards Circular Economy

Pallavi Chethan and Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 04, 2015

Lakshmi was just like any other waste-picker. She looked for items of value in the trash. Hailing for Tamil Nadu, she landed in Bengaluru. She became a waste-picker to take care o...

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Story of Nayandahalli is the Story of Urban Nomads

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Oct 06, 2015

Notes from Nayandahalli Historians have always been interested in cities and their resource inflows. They rarely ventured out from their comfort zones and talked about outflows. Ro...

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Exploring Nayandahalli as an Ecosystem Where Waste is Transformed in Resource

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Aug 26, 2015

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...

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