WRITINGS

10 Steps to Ending Open Defecation by 2030
Katherine Purvis | The Guardian | 24 November, 2015
Keywords: Toilets, Open Defecation

A different protest by girl students for construction of toilets
Imran Khan | TwoCircles | 2 October, 2016
Key Words: Toilets, Gender and Waste

A graveyard goes silent
Avinash Nair | The Indian Express | 18 October, 2015
Key Words: Waste Managers, Recycling, Shipbreaking

A greener scent: Mumbai-based Nikhil Gampa turns temple flowers into fragrant incense sticks
Moeena Halim | India Today | 24 April, 2016
Keywords: recycling, Mumbai, Green Wave

A new beginning – Conversations with Uger’s Lakshmi Murthy
Preeti | Kyra | 11 June, 2014
Keywords: Gender and Waste

All trains to have bio-toilets by 2019: Official
TwoCircles | 6 June, 2016
Key Words: Toilets, Railways

At Alang shipbreaking yard, worker safety remains a dusty dream
Malini Goyal | The Economic Times | 23 October, 2016
Key Words : Waste Managers, Recycling, Shipbreaking

Are building toilets enough for Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan to be a success?
Shipra Agarwal | The Kachra Project | 19 November, 2015
Keywords: Toilets, Gender and Waste, Education

Building a plan for construction waste
Himanshu Kaushik | The Times of India | 12 April, 2016
Key Words: Construction Waste, Waste Management

Caste factor in waste disposal
The Hindu | 11 February, 2013
Key Words: Waste Managers, Manual Scavenging

Central Railway plans pay-&-use toilets at stations
Neha Kulkarni | The Indian Express | 7 June, 2016
Key Words: Toilets, Railways

Children eking out a living from waste get help
Ranjani Raghavan | The Indian Express| 28 December 2009
Keywords:Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management

City of Garbage hits a Dead End
Alison Saldanha and Anjali Lukose | The Indian Express | 6 February, 2014
Keywords: dumping ground, Mumbai, waste-pickers, scavengers, ragpickers

Coca-Cola is in troubled waters (again) for a factory it was forced to shut down 12 years ago
Anand Kumar | Scroll.in | 21 July, 2016
Key Words: Hazardous waste

Construction debris is choking India and blocking our rivers
Shibaji Roychoudary | Scroll.in | 1 October, 2014
Keywords: Waste Management, Construction Waste

Curbing Food Wastage In A Hungry World
Bedanga Bordoloi | The Hindu Business Line | 30 October, 2016
Key Words: Food Waste, Recycling, Waste Management

Dadarao Patekar: Fighting for the rights of Mumbai’s Safai Karamcharis
Shiva Thorat | TwoCircles | 19 August, 2016
Key Words: Waste Managers, Manual Scavenging

Dalits demand to end manual scavenging
Bhim Jayanti | 12 April, 2016
Keywords: Manual Scavenging

Deonar Dumping ground fire: For them, rummaging through smouldering yard not an option but source of livelihood
Sadaf Modak | The Indian Express | 3 February, 2016
Keywords: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management

Disposable pads, disposable lives
Bindu Mohanty | The Earth and Us
Keywords: Gender and Waste, Solid Waste Management, Manual Scavenging

Fixing Mumbai: Electricity from waste
Aniruddha Pandit | The Hindu | 6 MARCH,, 2016
Keywords: Solid Waste Management, Recycling

For Clean India to work, country needs to solve its waste disposal problem
Shibaji Roychoudary | Scroll.in | 1 November, 2014
Key Words: Solid Waste Management, Recycling

From waste to energy: NDMC doing its bit towards easing power woes
TwoCircles | 15 June, 2015
Key Words: Recycling, Solid Waste Management

Garbage mounds spreading urban eyesores
The Times of India | 5 June, 2014
Keywords: Solid Waste Management, Dumping Ground,

Gone to waste: How India is drowning in garbage
Poulomi Banerjee | Hindustan Times | 9 February, 2016
Key Words: Solid Waste Management

Guidelines and space standards for Barrier Free Built Environment for Disabled and Elderly Persons
CPWD

How ‘3 Idiots’ Destroyed Ladhak
Ariel Sophia Bardi | Buzzfeed | 22 November, 2016
Key Words: Solid Waste Management

How a Mumbai society cracked the zero waste model
Ashwini Priolker | NDTV | 11 April, 2016
Keywords: Solid Waste Management

How An Environmental Biotechnologist is Turning Waste Into Wealth
Aashima Dogra | The Wire | 14 January, 2017
Keywords: Waste Manager, Recycling

How the Dream of ‘Clean India’ ignores ragpickers who work for little money and no rights
Abhimanyu Singh | Youth Ki Awaaz | 7 March, 2016
Keywords: Waste Managers

How this waste collector in Bengaluru is making entrepreneurs out of ragpickers
Shreya Pareek | The Better India | 19 February, 2015
Keywords: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management, labour conditions

In Mumbai, a campaign against restroom injustice
Jim Yardley | The New York Times | 14 June, 2012
Keywords: Toilets, Gender and Waste

India fifth largest producer of e-waste: study
The Hindu | 25 May, 2016
Keywords: E Waste, Recycling

India’s first plant that recycles construction waste
Damini Rath | The Hindu | 29 August, 2014
Key Words: Construction Waste, Recycling, Waste Management

Initiatives that are curbing food waste
Shubhi Tiwari | Post Pickle | 7 May, 2016
Key Words: Waste Managers, Food Waste

Kerala activists fight menstrual taboos by mailing napkins to factory where women were strip searched
Aarefa Johari | Scroll.in | 31 December, 2014
Keywords: Gender and Waste

Kicking up a stink
Soma Basu | Down to Earth | 31 May, 2013
Keywords: Gender and Waste, Solid Waste Management

Kodaikanal mercury poisoning: HUL settles with former workers, but there’s much left to do
Aaron Pereira | The Indian Express | 9 March, 2016
Key Words: Hazardous Waste

Lack of data hits waste management: Experts at green conclave
The Hindu | 10 May, 2016
Keywords: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management

Locate toilets, ticket counters at Mumbai railway stations using app
Prajakta Chavan | Hindustan Times | 6 February, 2017
Key Words : Toilets

Making Delhi free of open defecation: DUSIB proposes mobile toilets at 165 locations in capital
The Indian Express
Keywords: Toilets

Messing Around With Waste
Poornima Chikarmane and Anjor Bhaskar | Infochange India | August 2013
Key Words: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management, Recycling

Mumbai gets its first e-waste collection centre
DNA | 23 January, 2016
Keywords: E Waste, Recycling

New E-waste rules announced
Rajeshwari Ganesan | Down To Earth | 23 March, 2016
Keywords: E Waste, Recycling, Waste Management

New Eco Warriors
Geeta Seshu | Boloji | 3 July, 2002
Key Words: Waste Management, Solid Waste Management, Gender and Waste

New rules for biomedical waste management released
Jigyasa Watwani | Down To Earth | 28 March, 2016
Keywords: Waste Management, Biowaste

NGO makes sanitary pads from waste cloth for rural women in India
Hansika Subramanian and Dheera Gurnani | DNA | 30 April, 2014
Keywords: Gender and Waste, Recycling

People participation needed for better waste management: Javadekar
TwoCircles | 1 May, 2015
Key Words: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Mangement

President to open N-waste management unit in Kalpakkam
TwoCircles | 14 November, 2013
Key Words: Hazardous Waste, Waste Management

Ragpickers services will be recognized by Government to give National Award
The Hindu | 3 July, 2015
Keywords: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management

Railways To Set Up 25 Shiny New Toilets For Commuters
Iram Siddique | Mumbai Mirror | 31 October, 2016
Key Words: Toilets, Railways

Raising a stink: One woman in Kolkata plans to visit and review all the public toilets in the city
Mayank Jain | Scroll.in | 21 June 2015
Keywords: Toilets, Gender and Waste

Religious leaders call for ‘toilets before temples’
TwoCircles | 18 November, 2016
Key Words: Toilets

‘Shah Rukh won’t shake my hands, see how they smell’: The stench of despair from Mumbai’s underbelly
Smruti Koppikar | Scroll.in | 11 February, 2017
Key Words: Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management, Landfills

Smart cities also need garbage disposal facilities, says HC
Shibu Thomas | The Times of India | 22 September, 2015
Key Words: Solid Waste Management, Smart Cities

Solid Waste Management in Mumbai – Booklet
Bejoy Davis | The Bombay Community Public Trust

Solid Waste Management Rules 2016
MOEF | 2016
Keywords: Solid Waste Management

Story of Nayandahalli is the Story of Urban Nomads
Kabir Arora | Waste Narratives
Key Words: Waste Managers, Gender and Waste

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: What about the manual scavengers?
Parth MN | DNA | 29 July, 2015
Keywords: Manual Scavenging, Solid Waste Management

Swacch Bharat Mission failing due to lack of credible data: CSE
Two Circles | 6 October, 2016
Key Words: Solid Waste Management, Toilets

The disgusting stench of Incredible India
Nupur Sonar | Tehelka | 2 February, 2012
Keywords: Manual Scavenging, Railways

The Railways in Denial
Agrima Bhasin | Infochange India | February 2013
Key Words: Manual Scavenging, Waste Managers, Toilets, Railways

The Waghri Community: Urban India’s Invisible Recyclers
Dipti Bapat | The Wire | 30 July, 2016
Key Words: Waste Managers, Recycling, Gender and Waste

The Women in India Fighting for the Right to Pee
Chryselle D’Silva Dias | 29 February, 2016
Key Words: Toilets, Gender and Waste

Toilet talk
Aparna Pallavi | Down to Earth | 15 January, 2010
Keywords: Gender and Waste, Toilets

Tribunal asks BMC to give permanent status to 2,700 conservancy workers
Shalini Nair | The Indian Express | 25 November, 2014
Keywords: Manual Scavenging

Tricks of the E-waste trade
Down to Earth | 31 May, 2010
Keywords: E Waste

Two Years of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan
Durgesh | Raiot | 27 October, 2016
Key Words: Waste Management, Manual Scavenging, Waste Managers, Solid Waste Management

Vilappilsala: Resolute Villagers Say NO to Dumping Urban Waste in their Waterbody
India Resists | 12 October, 2012
Keywords: Solid Waste Management, Waterbodies

Washing off this stain will need more
Agrima Bhasin | The Hindu | 3 October, 2012
Keywords: Manual Scavenging

Waste In Fort Kochi is Taking Away Fishermen’s Livelihood
Azmia Riaz | India Resists | 18 July, 2016
Key Words: Solid Waste Management

Who cares for the disabled? Public toilets are nonexistent or non-functional
First Post | 27 October, 2014
Keywords: Toilets, Access

Why accessible and barrier-free toilets? Because it’s 2015
Mayuri Bhattacharjee | The Kachra Project | 19 November, 2015
Keywords: Toilets

Why are fires breaking out in Mumbai’s garbage dumping grounds?
Aarefa Johari | Scroll.in | 18 May, 2015
Keywords: Solid Waste Management, Landfills

Why are we pretending that there isn’t a growing mountain of menstrual waste we need to deal with
Nidhi Jamwal | The Ladies Finger | 5 June, 2015
Keywords: Gender and Waste

Why Mysore beat Chandigarh as India’s cleanest city
Manu Moudgil | TwoCircles | 11 March, 2016
Key Words: Solid Waste Management

World Bank Funded Slum Sanitation Programme in Mumbai
Amita Bhide and RN Sharma | EPW | 23 April, 2005
Key words: Solid Waste Management, Slum Sanitation