Life amid litter
New Indian ExpressCHENNAI: ‘Enadhu kuppai, enadhu porupu, ena urudhi alaipomae’. Then, waste pickers divide paper-based products into cardboard, newspapers, white and coloured; metals into aluminium, copper, and brass; and plastics into pet bottles, and dolls. To increase income generation opportunities and improve health for waste pickers in the city, Kabadiwalla Connect, a waste management solutions provider, and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, conducted a workshop on Friday where 200 rag pickers gathered. The session, ‘Capacity Building Program for Rag Pickers - Zone 13 and 14 of GCC’ is part of the announcement made by Environment and Climate Change Minister Siva V Meyyanathan’s in the state assembly in April 2023 where he said a survey would be done to assess the number of rag pickers and a training programme would be imparted. “We found out that they work in unhygienic conditions and are missing out on additional means of income,” says Swathi Lakshmi, research manager, Kabadiwalla Connect.
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