Informal Waste Pickers Keep Cities Clean but Face Discrimination
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 2017-03-02

Fifty waste pickers from Nashik demand recognition for the invaluable service they render to the city.

Public transport operators refuse to let Kantabai Yerode board their vehicles. She is called ‘filthy’ because of her occupation as an informal waste picker. As a result, everyday she has to walk for miles around the city of Nashik to collect recyclable waste from shops and garbage dumps. Kantabai is not alone: forty-nine of her colleagues, all women, recount similar tales of discrimination and harassment. Kantabai asks “Why do they do this? We work. If we didn’t do our work all the posh neighbourhoods of the city would be overflowing with rubbish.”

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Community correspondent Maya Khodve reports from Maharashtra for Video Volunteers.

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