[Reader-list] Inclusion of waste-pickers in proposed Solid Waste Management Rules

[Kabir Khan]

Inclusion of waste-pickers in proposed Solid Waste Management Rules
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Date: 6th January, 2016

To

Shri Prakash Javadekar

Honourable Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change

Government of India

*Subject: Inclusion of waste-pickers in proposed Solid Waste Management
Rules*

Dear Sir

We are appreciative of the fact that you have been emphasizing on the role
played by waste-pickers in solid waste management (SWM). We request you to
pursue the path of their inclusion by ensuring the acknowledgement of the
role played by informal waste pickers (including itinerant waste-buyers)
and informal waste recyclers (scrap traders, re-processors etc.) in
reducing and managing solid waste as well as contributing to socially
inclusive, cost effective and environmentally sustainable waste management
systems in proposed solid waste management rules.

Listed below are 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: Continued
here...
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