Tree · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Hasiru Dala
Waste pickers organising for dignity and a share of the city's recycling economy · Bengaluru
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Works locallyDeccan Plateau
- waste pickers
- informal workers
- circular economy
- social security
- solidarity economy
Hasiru Dala organises Bengaluru's informal waste pickers. It won them city ID cards in 2011, pioneered Dry Waste Collection Centres run by waste pickers (35 now supported), and has secured more than 7,000 identity document approvals so workers can access welfare schemes.