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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

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Why Turkey became Europe’s garbage dump

BY SELIN UÄžURTAÅž / 2020

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What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050

The World Bank

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‘The pandemic as a portal’  

Arundhati Roy / 2020

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Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic

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Smart Cities and Banality of Power

Ayona Datta / 2019

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India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis

Harry Cockburn / 2019

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Things We Do - The Rural and the Urban: Women

Peoples Archive of Rural India / 2018

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Waste pickers and their right to the city: Dispossession and displacement in nineteenth-century Paris and contemporary Montevideo

Lucía Fernandez / 

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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​

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China: the secret lives of urban waste pickers

Tang Damin / 2017

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Waste-picker & informal waste collectors of India seek safety measures from Indian government to safeguard against COVID 19

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Assessing Agbogbloshi 

e-scrap news

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How The Dream Of ‘Clean India’ Ignores Ragpickers Who Work For Little Money And No Rights

Abhimanyu Kumar / 2016

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Untouchable to indispensable: the Dalit women revolutionising waste in India

Carlin Carr / 2014

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Women’s waste picker cooperative in New Delhi transforms recyclables into art

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Infrastructure for waste pickers - Reclaim, Revalue, Reframe

Waste Picker integration Project, Melanie Samson, Durban South Africa

 

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