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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What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Manangement 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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India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis

Harry Cockburn / 2019

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

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Smart Cities and Banality of Power

Ayona Datta / 2019

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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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