Chintan Recycling Center Vlog
Ted Mathys | Posted July 17th, 2009 | AsiaTags: cardboard, Chintan, climate, Climate Change, climate mitigation, Delhi, garbage, Global Warming, Greenhouse gas, India, informal recycling, informal sector, micro-enterprise, paper, plastics, ragpicker, recycle, recycling, trash, vlog, waste, wastepicker
As my research on climate and wastepickers progresses, I’ve been working with Chintan to identify several areas in Delhi that might serve as case studies of local recycling efforts and their relationship to emissions reductions. The volume and composition of waste recycled by wastepickers in a specific geographical area is probably the most crucial bit of information in any attempt to account for their climate change mitigation work, so we’ve decided to begin in the areas with the best waste data. Last week, AP Peace Fellow Jacqui Kotyk and I visited one such area, Chintan’s micro-recycling center on the outskirts of the city. Check out the video below:
