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Scaling our Waste Mountains – Fixing solid waste in India’s cities

Godrej Consumer Products has launched ‘Scaling our Waste Mountains’ in partnership with Dasra. Solid waste affects everyone at an individual, community and public level. This report takes a deep dive into solid waste management in India’s cities, with a focus on the human dimension of solid waste management (SWM), and the roles and challenges of three of these actors: Urban Local Bodies, Informal Waste Workers, and Citizens. Beyond these three stakeholders, we have also looked at and amplified the path breaking work of NGOs whose interventions have solved for several intersecting challenges in the field. It also highlights cornerstones for change. While waste mountains represent several inconvenient truths about cities – the report discusses the need to come together with a call to action for the state, civil society, funders, and citizens.