Asia-Pacific
The more than 200 regional GAIA members from 20 countries in this region face a whole gamut of public health, environmental justice and sustainability issues, and our members work on problems related to municipal solid waste, healthcare waste and toxic and hazardous waste, including electronic waste. Learn more.
In the Spotlight
Space for Waste Pickers in Solid Waste Management
A meeting of waste pickers from around the world was held in April of 2012 in India. Participants with common experiences were able to share their successes, strategies, challenges, ideas, and mutual support. This video highlights what was learned.
Informal Recyclers Share Ideas Related to Extended Producer Responsibility
In this brief film, members of the informal recycling workers' organization, SWaCH, share their experiences and their insights into what designers and manufacturers can do to cut down on waste.
We, SWaCH
This film show members of the informal waste workers' organization, SWaCH, at work in Pune India.
A Beijing Recycler's Life
This film about a couple who have collected recyclables in one community in Beijing for 20 years shows their life as collectors in the daytime and their work to sell the materials to the recycling market in the evening.
PARTICULATE POLLUTION NEAR OKHLA INCINERATOR LIFE THREATENING: REPORT
The levels of fine particulate pollution found air samples taken from two locations around the municipal waste incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar, Delhi would have "triggered a health warning of emergency conditions," had the incinerator been in the United States.
Rejected in Argentina, yet welcome in Chalai
by Aswin J Kumar, The Times of India
January 3rd, 2013
by Aswin J Kumar, The Times of India
January 3rd, 2013
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Innviron, the US-based company chosen by the state government to set up a gasification plant to treat municipal solid waste at Chalai, has a long history of 'breach of contract' and repeated failures in waste-management in Argentina.
