Waste-Picker MRF Integration
Placing waste-pickers at the heart of material recovery facilities.
Integrating waste-pickers into MRFs gives them stable, sheltered, safer work while giving the MRF a skilled, motivated workforce that already knows materials — a win for both recovery rates and livelihoods.
- Waste-pickers are the most skilled sorters available
- MRF work is safer and more stable than street picking
- It raises both recovery rates and incomes
Sheltered work beats street picking
Bringing waste-pickers into material recovery facilities trades exposure and instability for safer, steadier work — while giving the MRF the most skilled sorters available.
- Exposed to traffic, weather and hazards
- Unstable, unpredictable daily income
- Isolated, with no grievance recourse
- Safer, controlled work environment
- Stable shifts and remuneration
- Fair terms and grievance mechanisms
The same skill, in a safer place, earning more reliably.
A clear, practical approach
Roles, shifts and remuneration in the MRF.
Placement with sorting and safety training.
Fair terms and grievance mechanisms.
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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