SWaCH
The world's largest waste-picker-led cooperative, formalising door-to-door waste collection
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SWaCH, formally instituted in 2005 in Pune, is a waste-picker-owned cooperative of nearly 4,000 self-employed members — predominantly women from marginalised communities — who provide door-to-door waste collection and segregation for more than 900,000 households.
Pune, MaharashtraSince 2005
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