ENVIRONMENTALLY-SOUND WASTE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Working in partnership with Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) and SWaCH, the 3D Program is facilitating a working group or consortium of relevant municipal and state government officials, technical and other experts, and representatives of waste pickers. Chaired by the Municipal Commissioner, the working group will create a plan to ensure a participatory, decentralized, economically efficient, environmentally robust solid waste management (SWM) system, based on minimization of wet waste at source through promotion of in-situ compositing and maximizing recycling through inclusion of waste pickers.
A representation of the proposed SWM platform to be implemented across Pune City
Read more in our report Solid Waste Management and Women's Livelihoods in Pune: A Desired Future