Clothing waste is not generated every day, yet it remains a part of Chennai’s waste stream. As the city lacks disposal information and dedicated collection systems, clothing waste enters the mixed waste channels. Community-led initiatives such as that by the Residents of Kasturba Nagar Association (ROKA) highlight the gaps in the system and the potential of decentralised collection, reuse, repurposing, upcycling and recycling. Lack of a sustainable system to manage cloth waste Currently, there is no system for unusable cloth collection and no information for the public on how to dispose of clothes. Most unusable clothes, especially inner garments, are…
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Janani Venkitesh is an environment and solid waste management enthusiast working with communities, institutions, organisations and municipalities to implement source segregation of waste on a voluntary basis. She is founder of Residents Of Kasturba Nagar Association (ROKA), whose primary focus is solid waste management and other environment-based projects. She was also one of the representatives of C40’s Women4Climate for the City Of Chennai.