http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/12/27/the-recycling-business-in-dharavi-india Comments for "The Recycling Business in Dharavi (India)" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/12/27/the-recycling-business-in-dharavi-india <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> December 19, 2007 - 16:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> The Economist</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> A soul-searching business</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10311257">http://economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10311257</a> </div> <div class="flexinode--41"> <strong>Teaser: </strong><br /> Like Hindu souls, disposable plastic cups are many times reborn in Dharavi. In a spiralling continuum, they are discarded and gathered in, melted down to their polypropylene essence, and re-moulded in some new plastic form. Recycling is one of the slum&#39;s biggest industries. Thousands of tonnes of scrap plastic, metals, paper, cotton, soap and glass revolve through Dharavi each day.<br /><br />Location is the key to this.<br class="clear" /></div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> Like Hindu souls, disposable plastic cups are many times reborn in Dharavi. In a spiralling continuum, they are discarded and gathered in, melted down to their polypropylene essence, and re-moulded in some new plastic form. Recycling is one of the slum&#39;s biggest industries. Thousands of tonnes of scrap plastic, metals, paper, cotton, soap and glass revolve through Dharavi each day.<br /><br />Location is the key to this. Until two decades ago, the slum was next door to Bombay&#39;s biggest rubbish tip. This provided a livelihood for thousands of local dalits, for whom “ragpicking”—scavenging on society&#39;s leftovers for anything of salvageable value—is a traditional employment. The tip has since been shifted outside the city. So too, for want of space, have many of Dharavi&#39;s recycling units. Yet the roughly 6,000 tonnes of rubbish produced each day by a swelling Mumbai continues to sustain an estimated 30,000 ragpickers, including many residents of Dharavi. The slum is also host to some 400 recycling units.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/12/27/the-recycling-business-in-dharavi-india#comment Miscellaneous Asia Pacific Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:56:16 -0500 Manuel Bueno 4998 at http://www.nextbillion.net