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Waste Warriors Society

Clearing the Trash Off the Himalayas' Trekking Trails

Waste & Recycling

A grassroots NGO built waste-collection systems from scratch in Himalayan towns and national parks that had none, one trail and one household at a time.

6,000metric tonnesWaste collected across Himalayan region

2metric tonnes/dayDharamshala facility daily waste processed

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SWaCH Pune Seva Sahakari Sanstha

Pune's Waste Pickers Own the City's Doorstep Collection

Waste & Recycling

A wholly worker-owned cooperative of Pune's waste pickers now walks into roughly one million properties a day, collecting the city's waste door to door.

3,900waste pickers (3,900+)Waste pickers integrated in the cooperative

1MpropertiesPune properties covered by SWaCH waste pickers

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