Unraveling Chennai Corporation’s SWM Budget - the process and the (shocking) results
Out of sight, out of mind seems to be the guiding principle for our behaviour towards waste.
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Study Trip to Thanal, Trivandrum, Kerala
This is a short report documenting the Zero Waste Cities Collaborative Project team's visit to Thanal. As members of this team at CAG, we were keen on understanding how this organization had been instrumental in helping Trivandrum set up an effective zero waste management system in place. The following are a series of short notes written by the team capturing the essential points of the different sites and stakeholders we visited during our field visits.
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Chennai’s garbage crisis - challenges and road ahead
The garbage situation today
Exploring The Lives of Chennai’s Hidden Environmentalists
In January 2017, I joined CAG, specifically to work on solid waste management (SWM) projects. I started with the Mapping Waste Trails project, which aims to gain a better understanding of the lives of the informal waste pickers engaged in waste recycling in Chennai. Furthermore, we will be tracking the movements of certain recyclables, to ascertain the routes by which such materials traverse the city-scape, and the value added within each step in the routes.
Chennai's Waste Management System: Exploring The Lives of The Hidden Environmentalists
In January 2017, I joined CAG, where part of my work focuses on their solid waste management (SWM) projects. I started with the Mapping Waste Trails project, which aims to gain a better understanding of the lives of the informal waste pickers engaged in waste recycling in Chennai. Furthermore, we will be tracking the movements of certain recyclables, to ascertain the routes by which such materials traverse the city-scape, and the value added within each step in the routes.
Letter to Sri Javadekar for inclusion of wastepickers in Solid Waste Management Rules
A letter to the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change with a list of suggestions from the members of Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers for additions to the draft SWM Rules with respect to recognition and integration of informal waste-pickers and waste recyclers
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Working Paper on Data Driven Planning for Solid Waste Management in Chennai
Working paper by Harsha Anantharaman on data driven planning for SWM based on experiences in Chennai at the "India's World of Waste" conference hosted by NUS, Singapore in July 2015.
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Data Driven Planning for Solid Waste Management in Chennai
Presentation by Harsha Anantharaman on data driven planning for SWM based on experiences in Chennai at the "India's World of Waste" conference hosted by NUS, Singapore in July 2015.
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