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Chintan Environmental Action Group

Photo Credit: Mackenzie Berg Photo Credit: Paul Colombini Photo Credit: Mackenzie Berg

 


Chintan
’s mission is to facilitate the participation of citizens in the empowerment of their communities and to advocate for local and national policies that ensure social equity and environmental safeguarding.



The report, 'Cooling Agents,' was released in December 2009 by the Delhi-based Chintan Environmental Action and Research Group in partnership with The Advocacy Project (AP), at the climate summit in Copenhagen. It is the first attempt to quantify the impact of informal recycling on climate change in India.

Read the summary of the report.

Read the full report:

Cooling Agents: An Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation by the Informal Recycling Sector in India




A brief introduction to 2009 Peace Fellow Ted Mathys and Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Chintan runs a small recycling center on the outskirts of Delhi, India, handling upwards of 800 kilograms of waste per day. Many of the employees at the unit are wastepickers from the local area.
Each week, Chintan meets with wastepicker communities around Delhi to hear their concerns, inform them of key legislation and policy, and discuss how to proceed with their campaigns.




Watch more video profiles collected by 2008 AP Peace Fellow Paul Colombini.








See photos of wastepickers
by 2008 Peace Fellow Mackenzie Berg.











Chintan publishes press releases, available on its website.


In 2009, AP sent Peace Fellows Ted Mathys and Jacqui Kotyk to work with Chintan.
Read Ted's blog. Read Jacqui's blog.
 
In 2008, AP sent Peace Fellows Mackenzie Berg and Paul Colombini to work with Chintan.
Read Mackenzie's blog. Read Paul's blog.
                Read Paul Colombini's first-hand account of his work in India.
Privatizating Waste Collection Puts India's Waste-Pickers at a Disadvantage (April 3, 2008)
Washington, DC: The government of Delhi has undermined recycling by privatizing waste collection in Delhi, according to a leading Indian environmental leader. Bharati Chaturvedi, Founder and Director of the Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, a Delhi-based advocacy group and AP partner, told a recent meeting at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington that community-based recyclers, also known as waste-pickers (left), typically dispose of up to 60 percent of the waste in Delhi. Privatization has deepened poverty among waste-pickers and reduced garbage collection by two thirds. Visit the Chintan partner page to find out more on Chintan's campaigns, including an effort to get young children out of waste-picking and into school.




August 7, 2008
The Wastepickers of Delhi
Institute for Policy Studies

July 2008
The Wastepickers of Delhi
Mother Jones

January 2008
Why Waste a Chance? (by Bharati Chaturvedi, Director of Chintan)
Down to Earth

November 15, 2007
India's Ragpickers: Scavenger Hunt
The Economist

September 27, 2007
Picking Up Trash by Hand, and Yearning for Dignity
The New York Times

For more, visit Chintan's website.











Contact:
238 Sidhartha Enclave
New Delhi - 110014
Tel:+91-11-46574171, 46574172, 46574173
Fax:+91-11-46574174
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