Ahmedabad's Innovative waste management programme can be a gamechanger

Waste sorting in Dharavi. The recycling industry of the slum is the largest of Mumbai (Photo by Frdric Soltan/Corbis) Source: Getty images

Research suggests that the collaboration between municipality and local workers’ unions in Ahmedabad led to the integration of informal waste pickers into formal municipal waste management systems. Author Lucy Oates, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds speaks with SBS Gujarati on 'Reduced waste and improved livelihoods for all: Lessons on waste management from Ahmedabad, India'.

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