Inclusive Waste Collection Models
Collection systems designed to include, not displace, informal workers.
Formalising collection can accidentally displace the informal workers who already do it. Inclusive models embed waste-pickers and SHGs as the collection or dry-waste workforce, so modernisation lifts rather than erases livelihoods.
- Modernisation can wipe out informal livelihoods if careless
- Inclusion secures both service quality and jobs
- It is central to a just transition in waste
Modernise collection without erasing jobs
Formalising collection can quietly displace the informal workers who already do it. Inclusive models embed pickers and SHGs as the workforce, so upgrading service lifts livelihoods too.
- Private contract replaces informal workers
- Existing pickers lose access to waste
- Livelihoods erased by the upgrade
- Pickers and SHGs as the workforce
- Roles embedded in the new system
- Fair terms and transition support
A just transition upgrades the service and the livelihoods together.
A clear, practical approach
Existing informal actors and their roles.
Roles for pickers/SHGs in the new system.
Training and terms for a fair transition.
Related work we've delivered
Real projects behind our waste-picker integration — named partners, measured outcomes.
Integrating Waste Pickers at the Baramati MRF
Baramati, Pune district (Population 1,08,152 · ~10 TPD dry waste)
Creating a Garbage-Free Slum in Wadarwadi
Wadarwadi, Shivajinagar ward, Pune
Evaluation of the Solid Waste Management Project at Dharamshala
Dharamshala (Rakkar), Himachal Pradesh
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