Junking reality

The cleaning force of every country has an indispensable worker, the rag picker. But the health and safety of this person is conveniently ignored

SEWA helps working women gain confidence

Where Women Are Leaders -- The SEWA Movement In India Kalima Rose . Publisher: Sage (Vistaar) Publications, Delhi . Price: Rs.225 (hb); Rs.100 (pb)

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Wasteful profits

From barefoot ragpickers to rich kabariwallahs moving about in cars, the country's waste recycling industry caters to countless Indians.An …

Alitalia apologies to wastepicker but that is not enough

Revision of regulation of EIAs for what?

Lonely foragers group

Nagpur ragpickers out, machines in

Uncelebrated entrepreneurs

Review of film 'Wasted'

Film>> Wasted Swecha Productions directed by Anshul Uniyal and Vimalendu Jha 16 minutes

Garbage gets attention

India is revising the way it manages solid waste. A manual for this, prepared by the urban development ministry, proposes providing legal …

Contract killers

Nagpur’s bin-free plans in dumps

Outsourced firms default on garbage collection and treatment

Trade secrets

Who dares trash them?

Faceless workers

...and not for garbage

No room for recycling

Give waste pickers their due

Tax on recycled plastic proposed; industry criticises government

Tax on recycled plastic

Sun, sea and garbage

Trashing the ragpicker

The new rules for plastic waste management exclude the informal sector, key to their successful implementation

Stigmatised occupations need urgent attention: Oxfam report

In addition to being prone to the risk of disease, the practitioners of such occupations also lack social security

Thinking out of a box

Recycling of tetra paks gets underway in Mumbai

Why waste a chance?

Partial ban

New rules ban metalised plastic only in tobacco sachets