The recovery of post-consumer waste in the developing world is driven by the informal waste ecosystem.
However, municipalities, multi-national brands and waste management companies struggle to work effectively with these stakeholders, and they continue to remain outside the purview of municipal waste-management systems and Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs).
In 2015, Kabadiwalla Connect conducted an extensive survey on Chennai's informal sector. Key findings are discussed here.
Kabadiwalla Connect helps leverage a city’s existing informal waste infrastructure in the collection and processing of post-consumer waste.
Using ICT and IoT based technology, we integrate informal actors into the formal waste management system; to deliver cost-effective and low-carbon waste management solutions that cities in the Global South need to support their growing economies and populations.
B2b Solutions we offer
Mapping
Spatially-enabled, industry compliant data-collection on informal and formal waste infrastructure in cities in the developing world
Digitalisation
KYC and transaction based material tracking and traceability across stakeholders in the formal/informal supply-chain
Sourcing
Secondary raw material guarantees for processors/PROs in cities in the developing world through informal sector procurement
Municipal Collection
Reverse logistics solutions for post-consumer waste collection — powered by local informal scrap-shops and their waste-pickers
Understanding informality
The case for informal waste supply-chain integration in the developing world
introducing hyperlokal™
Commercial assignments
Awards and Recognition
