Tackling Trash: South Asia’s Informal Waste Economy
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Join the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University for a discussion on socioeconomics of waste in South Asia, featuring Lakshmi Narayan, co-founder of SWaCH Cooperative and KKPKP, and Saumya Roy, author of Castaway Mountain.
Join the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University for a discussion on socioeconomics of waste in South Asia, featuring Lakshmi Narayan, co-founder of SWaCH Cooperative and KKPKP, and Saumya Roy, author of Castaway Mountain.
As urban populations have exploded across South Asia, trash has become a mounting issue for municipalities. In Delhi, the Ghazipur landfill made headlines as it neared the same height as the Taj Mahal. Behind the scenes, a massive, invisible workforce – an entire informal economy – exists around waste, collecting, recycling and subsisting off what others discard.
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Contact: mittalsai@fas.harvard.edu