You can’t fix a waste system you haven’t measured.
Before a single bin moves, Social Lab maps a city’s entire waste system — operations, quantum and every stakeholder — into one evidence-based baseline and a costed action plan.
We assess a city across three components
Waste systems fail at the seams between operations, volumes and people. We look at all three together.
Collection, segregation, transfer, transport, processing and the Garbage-Vulnerable Points in between.
Quantifying and characterising waste generated, collected and processed — wet, dry and mixed, TPD by zone.
Awareness, capacity and challenges of households, safai karmacharis, waste pickers, scrap dealers and bulk generators.
A three-phase method that ends in an action plan
Review of existing SWM data, ward maps and secondary sources to frame the study boundary and sampling plan.
A multi-pronged household, worker and bulk-generator survey with on-site observation of collection routes, GVPs and processing sites.
Quantified findings, gap analysis and a prioritised, costed intervention roadmap the city can act on.
The detail a real assessment surfaces
Every figure below comes from a Social Lab city baseline — the kind of evidence that turns a guess into a fundable plan.
Four deliverables you can act on
A complete picture of the current system — operations, quantum and stakeholders in one document.
Geo-located garbage-vulnerable points and collection-route coverage to fix what is broken.
Where the city stands against scientific-SWM benchmarks — segregation, recovery, worker welfare.
A prioritised, costed roadmap of interventions sequenced for measurable, fundable impact.
Baselines that shaped real city programmes
Municipalities & organisations we've delivered with
An assessment is where every programme starts
A baseline points to what comes next — engagement, collection, processing and the proof that it worked.
Want to know exactly where your city’s waste system leaks?
Commission a baseline assessment — we’ll map the gaps and hand you a costed action plan.
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