{"id":71926,"date":"2025-05-22T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/may\/22\/waste-collection-green-work-pro-poor-partnership-pune-india"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:40:29","slug":"waste-collection-is-green-work-how-a-pro-poor-partnership-created-jobs-and-cleaned-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71926","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Waste collection is green work\u2019: how a pro-poor partnership created jobs and cleaned a city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cooperative in Pune, India, is diverting waste from the landfill while also alleviating poverty<\/p>\n<p>Three decades ago, Rajabai Sawant used to pick and sort waste on the streets of Pune with a sack on her back. The plastic she collected from a public waste site would be sold for some money that saved her children from begging.<\/p>\n<p>Today, dressed in a dark green jacket monogrammed with the acronym Swach (solid waste collection and handling) over a colourful sari, the 53-year-old is one among an organised group of waste collectors and climate educators who teach residents in urban Pune how to segregate and manage waste, based on a PPPP \u2013 a pro-poor private public partnership.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an abridged version of a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/india.mongabay.com\/2025\/01\/empowering-waste-pickers-with-dignified-jobs-for-environmental-change\/\">originally published by Mongabay<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/may\/22\/waste-collection-green-work-pro-poor-partnership-pune-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cooperative in Pune, India, is diverting waste from the landfill while also alleviating povertyThree decades ago, Rajabai Sawant used to pick and sort waste on the streets of Pune with a sack on her back. The plastic she collected from a public waste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,62,302,61,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-india","category-recycling","category-south-and-central-asia","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71927,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926\/revisions\/71927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}