Community Based Waste Management in Defense Colony

Written by Caroline / 12 December 2009 / Read Caroline's latest blog entries.

For the past year, some members of the community in Defense COlony have been pushing for more sustainable waste management for their Resident Welfare Association (the community organizations, called RWAs). A few women were able to create a composting area within a park in Block A, and find a financially sustainable model to employ a few former wastepickers to manage collecting, verifying appropriate sorting, bringing food waste to the composting areas, and managing turning the compost heaps.

By looking at other models for waste management, the team at the India Climate Solutions Project are exploring ways to replicate such projects -- either by generating community investment from an RWA or interested residents OR by generating investment from an outside party that would recover costs through future sales of compost.