THE WORLD’S FIRST ETHICALLY TRADED PLASTIC
A first of its kind fair trade plastics recycling initiative by Hasiru Dala Innovations Hasiru Dala Innovations, a Bangalore based waste management startup that works on creating better livelihoods for wastepickers, has launched a unique fair trade plastics recycling initiative in association with The Body Shop, the global personal care brand, and Plastics For Change, India. […]
HEALTH AND DIGNITY TO WASTE-PICKERS & RECYLERS! JOIN THE RED DOT CAMPAIGN!
Today, Pune’s SWaCH wastepicker cooperative, the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtkari Panchayat (KKPKP) waste-picker trade union and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) kicked off a massive, city-wide “Red Dot” campaign to improve the way that residents dispose of their sanitary waste (diapers and sanitary napkins). Waste-picker groups and volunteers are using their creativity to request that people […]
DIARY OF SUMMER CAMP WITH CHILDREN OF WASTEPICKERS
I got to learn — about Hasiru Dala when I started volunteering with Buguri a couple of months after moving to Bangalore in January this year. Having volunteered with a community library in Delhi, I was excited to hear about the birth of one in Bangalore and wished to join their journey in creating a dialogue […]
INFORMAL WORKERS’ NARRATIVES IS A PLATFORM FOR DIALOGUE AND TO CREATE SOLIDARITIES
Last year on 2nd June, in India Habitat Centre, Alliance of Indian Wastepickers organized Waste Narratives with wastepickers as panelists. Someone* in the audience asked the panelists- how does it feel to be working as an unacknowledged, invisible worker? My colleague, member of wastepickers cooperative SwaCH, Pune, in impeccable Marathi responded saying- we are not […]
Climate Action #1: Move from Linear to Circular
Take-Make-Waste was how the Ellen MacArthur Foundation described our current, linear economy. In a linear economy, raw materials are collected, and then transformed into products that are used until they are finally discarded as waste. Value is created in this economic system by producing and selling as many products as possible. A product of the […]
Indumathi, the voice of India’s wastepickers at the Plastics Treaty, Uruguay
As Indumathi, erstwhile wastepicker supported by Hasiru Dala speaks today on behalf of Indian wastepickers at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the Plastics Treaty, in Uruguay, we spoke to her about her journey. You would be astonished to know the path that lies behind this proud representative of Indian Wastepickers at an international negotiation. She […]
COP27-A-Recap
Introduction The climate crisis is the biggest crisis of our time. Everyone is affected by climate change, but some people and regions are far more vulnerable than others, and most times the ones who don’t contribute as much to or cause the climate crisis are often at the brunt of it. The climate crisis is […]
COP15 – A recap
Introduction We are now living in an age of extinction with biodiversity loss ranked as one of the biggest threats facing humanity. When a species goes extinct, it takes with it all of the physical, chemical, biological, and behavioural attributes that have been selected for that species, after having been tested and tried in […]
SUPPORT FOR RESTORATION OF BURNT DRY WASTE COLLECTION CENTRE OPERATED BY WASTEPICKERS IN BENGALURU
On the evening of 27th June 2017, a Dry Waste Collection Centre* (located in Ward number 161, near Gowdanapallya Kere) operated by erstwhile wastepicker Kumar Shankar caught fire. At the point, the centre was hosting approximately 1.5 to 2 tonnes of sorted waste material that was worth INR 30,000 and ready to be sold to […]
The Burgeoning Problem of Textile Waste: The Need for Collection, Recycling & EPR
The textile industry is one of the oldest industries in India. Over the years, this industry has undergone many changes, experiencing both highs and lows. However, one of the lowest points came during the colonial era, when the British with the advent of industrialization destroyed the traditional art and livelihood of many skilled thread workers […]
