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Let’s Talk About Dehradun's Safai Sathis
Do you know where your waste goes after it leaves your home? How many hands does it change? Most of us have very limited knowledge about it. Either the Nagar Nigam (Municipal Corporation) is collecting it from our houses, or we throw our waste in the nearest dustbin installed by the Nagar Nigam, but in […]
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Dehradun Teachers Trained in Next Phase of our Green Gurukul Program
The education team at Waste Warriors Dehradun is excited to have completed their next round of Teacher’s Training, which is the first step in Green Gurukul. This is a program geared at training teachers to teach basic solid waste management information to their school students. To start the program, we had invited at least […]
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'Thank You Safai Sathi' Painting Competition
The 'Thank you Safai Sathi' campaign, under PRITHVI - Plastic Waste Management Programme, aims to pay gratitude to all our Safai Sathis that work for cleaner tomorrow. Safai Sathi is anyone who works towards making the environment cleaner. Safai Sathis are our waste pickers, house help, school cleaning staff, street sweepers, kabadiwalas, scrap dealers […]
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Rajpur Nature Festival 2018
This was the fifth year in a row that we have managed the waste at the Rajpur Nature Festival. Our team coordinated the segregation of waste generated by around 100 stalls and thousands of visitors. Vendors were given reusable sacks for their dry waste, and the large bins we provided were lined with biodegradable sacks […]
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Over 5 tonnes of waste collected in Himalaya clean up expedition
A series of mountain clean up’s was organised by our fellow Warrior and former Dharamsala Operations Manager Rahul Makkar. The first expedition ran from the 18th to the 22nd Oct, with a team from the Indian Mountaineering Federation visiting the Pantwari-Nag Tibba region, including Chopta, Tugnath temple and Chandrashila peak. The team IMF team supported […]
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Waste Warriors wins a Safaigiri 2018 Award!
Good news: Waste Warriors' efforts were rewarded on 2nd October 2018, at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai! India Today presented Waste Warriors Society with a Safaigiri 2018 Award for being a ‘Community Mobiliser’, one of 15 award categories presented to NGOs working across India at the India Today Safaigiri Summit and Awards 2018. […]
