Waste-pickers – Salvaging the city’s garbage

by and January 29, 2014 Civic
The 2010 UN Habitat publication states that waste-pickers perform 50 to 100% of all ongoing waste collection in most cities in developing countries – at no cost to the city budget. How does it work for the waste-pickers in Bangalore?
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About Nalini Shekar

Nalini Shekar is the Co-founder of Hasiru Dala.
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About Pinky Chandran

Pinky Chandran is an independent researcher, author and a community journalist. She tracks policy and legal developments on issues related to waste management and its intersections. Garbage inspires her to write poetry and she runs her own blog wasteframes.com. She is the founding member of the Solid Waste Management Roundtable (SWMRT) and Trustee at Hasiru Dala. She is a dog lover and a pet parent.
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  1. Stanley Ravi says:
    September 4, 2014 at 4:51 am

    If I do a find and replace the word
    W _ _ _ E with Human By – products,
    At home they are just
    – Kitchen By-products
    – Shopping By-products.
    Because everything is useful.
    Thank you.

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