India's largest cooperative of waste pickers turns 300 tonnes of waste into wealth annually

Right in the residential outskirts of Aundh, Pune, lies a small collection centre owned by Pune-based cooperative SWaCH. This centre came into existence in 2011, led by Geeta Phatak, one of the 3668 members of SWaCH. It resembles a departmental store. It has everything from clothes to crockery and collectables. From kettles to sneakers. With one small difference. These are all secondhand materials brought in and sold by the rag-picking community of Pune.
India has over 377 million urban people living in towns and cities. According to Central Pollution Control Board data, urban India generates around 56 million tonnes of municipal solid waste per annum of which 40-50% is not processed and eventually ends up in dumpsites. A significant share of the discarded materials from urban households that end up in a landfill can be either reused or recycled. SWaCH turns more than 300 tonnes of such discarded materials into wealth annually.
This is their story.

[@TardigradeSurviverofapocalypse]

Great initiative needs to be implemented every small town as well

[@kpatel7995]

Outstanding work by wonderful people. Thanks. Bravo.

[@SuperVinod7]

Every municipal Corp. in India shud follow this model & citizens also shud Co-operate .. 👍
SWATCH... 👍

[@AbhishekNigam]

Incredible work! Thank you DTE for covering this initiative!

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I really appreciate the education I get with this channel. I wouldn't know about these things living in the U.S. without this sort of content.

[@PriyankaPatil-xy4ol]

They should start online store with proper display n pricing of recycled stuff

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Inspiring innovation 👍👍👍

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[@saranbhatia8809]

Great initiative!

[@828anuradha]

Nice intiation, hope this adopted ,in different cities

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Great initiative

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Good initiative 👏

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Great 👌👍👍👍👍🌍

[@SankatMochan_]

Wonderful

[@mdshahnawajakhtar1588]

Very useful information...
How can be a part of swach service

[@vishalghayal531]

Hat's off🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌

[@Good4All4Good]

The items would not be stacked in bags, with no place to store if, instead of having "middlemen" who buy-then-sell-to-the-poor-for-profit, just sort them, display them, and make them, immediately, directly, available to the poor. Profit to no one. Benefit to everyone.

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[@saimandebbarma]

There are some waste which needs to stop coming into the landfills, or atleast reduce by bringing all sorts of renewable alternatives & if can't stop we atleast need to stop using, thus in all that we need everyone's support or humans all over the world must understand or if they are not aware we must make them aware, though recycling is the good option!
Anyways atlast it's depends on humans & if we all individually work towards our true well being we can save whole humanity if we want!☝️👍

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