India
Global Strategic Workshop for Waste Pickers
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is organising an international workshop that will focus on strategies for inclusion of waste pickers in solid waste management systems. For more information you can consult the...
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Chintan is a registered, non-profit organization working on the issue of sustainable, equitable consumption and environmental justice.
Waste Ventures
Waste Ventures incubates solid waste management companies owned and operated by waste pickers. They provide them with a solid waste management blueprint to recycle, compost, and earn carbon credits from waste collected in addition to organizational...
The Economic Aspects of the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management
This booklet is about people who earn a livelihood and support their families by extracting value from solid waste. These people are sometimes called rag pickers,waste pickers or scavengers. There are millions of them in cities all around theworld,...
Where can global awareness root locally? The Case of Informal Sector Inclusion in Integrated Solid Waste Management
This paper examines the informal recycling sector working on solid waste in Asia, with a focus on India and the Philippines, but with illustrations drawn from across the world. There is increasing awareness around both the role of the sector,...
Report on Mapping and Evaluation of Solid Waste Management Case Studies
Another product of ISSOWAMA (Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia) project is a mapping of case studies of major waste streams in Asia. The required characterization criteria was defined at the beginning of the activity. Applied...
Simplified Guide on Solid Waste Management in Asian Developing Countries
This guide attempts to make clear how solid waste management in Asian developing countries is influenced by the prevailing social, economic, institutional, legal, technical and environmental conditions, and points out the negative impacts of...
Evaluation of major Gaps in Knowledge on Solid Waste in 9 Asian Countries
This report from the ISSOWAMA (Integrated Solid Waste Management in Asia) project aims at gathering information and identifying gaps of knowledge as well as scientific and technological barriers concerning present MSW management in the Asian region...
Current Research in Solid Waste Management in Asian Developing Countries
One of the deliverables of the ISSOWAMA (Integrated Solid Waste Management in Asia) project focuses on key stakeholders of solid waste management in the region. This includes research centres and analyzes research projects in the ISSOWAMA focus...
Decentralised Anaerobic Treatment of Market Waste: A Case study in South India
The presentation available below describes the case of the initiatives towards Decentralised Anaerobic Treatment of Market Waste in South India. Used biotechnologies are assessed and cost calculations are made.
