Chintan: An NGO working towards improving lives of urban waste pickers

Chintan has 40 staffers and an annual turnover of Rs 50 million

As the world debates issues of poverty, climate change and more, a larger problem has been quietly collecting under our noses, one landfill at a time. It is estimated that a time will come when the world will be enveloped by mountains of suppurating waste — unless we immediately reduce what we throw away, and improve how we dispose of it. This problem has been exacerbated in India, where uncontrolled urban development and lack of a scientific waste management policy have led to mountains of waste and methane-oozing landfills that are waiting to explode. Also, its 1.5 million waste pickers