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 Management to 2050
The World Bank
Arundhati Roy / 2020
Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic
Smart Cities and Banality of Power
Ayona Datta / 2019
India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis
Harry Cockburn / 2019
Things We Do - The Rural and the Urban: Women
Peoples Archive of Rural India / 2018
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
e-scrap news
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
Women’s waste picker cooperative in New Delhi transforms recyclables into art
Infrastructure for waste pickers - Reclaim, Revalue, Reframe
Waste Picker integration Project, Melanie Samson, Durban South Africa