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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...
Waste pickers and volunteers divert 177 tons of festival offerings from rivers
The significance of immersing the idol symbolizes the Lord taking our sorrows along with Him and returning again next year to protect us. But between this symbolism and merriment lies the bleak reality of ecological degradation that comes with immersing idols and Nirmalaya in our water bodies.
SWaCH Cooperative featured on a national TV show in India
SWaCH Cooperative in Pune, India, appeared on a national television show Satyamev Jayate in March. In the episode “Invisible Environmentalists”, the show’s host Aamir Khan interviews Laxmi Narayan, co-founder of SWaCH and SWaCH waste picker Saru Bai, who now runs a compost plant with her husband.
SWaCH: Five Years and Counting
Through this latest 12-page issue of the newsletter, SWaCH shares the journey it has been on since it was founded five years ago – the excitement, the anxieties, successes and new ideas that have emerged for making Pune a better city for all in the years to come.
The company BVG Kshitij violates Minimum Wages and Contract Labor in Pimpri Chinchwad
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation authorities had been shockingly apathetic to the inhuman treatment to over 400 waste workers employed by its contractor BVG Kshitij. In frustration, the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) called for a public “verification drive” to ascertain the exact wages paid to workers by the company.
The SWaCH Newsletter is out!
SWaCH is a collective of self-employed waste pickers that provides waste collection and management services. It publishes a quarterly newsletter. The latest has a lot of great articles!
SWaCH struggle for labor rights continues
India – November 2012 Update from Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW): SWaCH officially terminated work on November 1 in the PCMC (the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporati...
“Waste pickers have a field day in city” (Indian Express)
INDIA – 26 April 2012 – A week-long convention, involving as many as 500 waste pickers from over 30 cities across India and countries like Nepal, Cambodia, Bangladesh, ...
“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...
“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...
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 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...
“Corporation’s plan to generate electricity from waste is unviable, say experts” (Times of India)
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...
“Civic body tells SWaCH to stop collecting garbage” (Times of India)
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...