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
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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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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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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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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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