News reports, journal articles, essays, reviews and blog posts on topics of waste, work and survival in India, informality, recycling and circular economy.
India’s plastic waste crisis is too big, even for Modi
Niharika Sharma
Why Turkey became Europe’s garbage dump
What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Manangement to 2050
The World Bank
Arundhati Roy / 2020
Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic
India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis
Harry Cockburn / 2019
Lucía Fernandez /
Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism
Christine Bednarz, National Geographic / 2018
Empowering the empowered? Slum tourism and the depoliticization of poverty
Melissa Nisbett / 2017
China: the secret lives of urban waste pickers
Tang Damin / 2017
Smart Cities and Banality of Power
Ayona Datta / 2019
How The Dream Of ‘Clean India’ Ignores Ragpickers Who Work For Little Money And No Rights
Abhimanyu Kumar / 2016
Untouchable to indispensable: the Dalit women revolutionising waste in India
Carlin Carr / 2014