India Ragpickers' Dilemma

SWaCH India’s waste pickers

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Waste pickers in Pune, India formed SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling) a cooperative of self-employed waste pickers. For over 10 years, SWaCH has worked in partnership with city authorities, providing door-to-door collection for a small fee and unlike other contractors that favor landfills and incineration units SWaTCH recycles and composts the city’s rubbish. Each week…

Waste Pickers to micro industrialists

Waste Pickers are persons that make a living or survive by scavenging trash dumps for re-sellable materials.  Some estimates state that 15 million people survive by picking waste.  A world bank study estimates that up to 2% of the world’s population depends on some form of trash to survive. A good place to start to…