The Month of Invaluable Recyclers

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”— Jane Goodall

March 1st, marked the International Waste Pickers Day while March 18th was the Global Recycling Day. Waste pickers are #InvaluableRecyclers, the primary, first-mile contributors to a #circulareconomy. We salute them for their resilience and all that they do make this world livable each day!

Hasiru Habba, the annual celebration of wastepickers in Karnataka, organized by Hasiru Dala took place on 18th March at Freedom Park, Bengaluru. It was a delight for us at Hasiru Dala Innovations Private Limited to meet, greet and celebrate with food and music with over 2000 waste pickers, informal waste workers, and micro waste entrepreneurs who had gathered for this fiesta.

Visit of our Biogas Plant by Shri Aman Arora, Renewable Energy Minister, Govt. of Punjab

Together with our JV partner Carbon Masters, we hosted the Renewable Energy Minister from Punjab, Mr Aman Arora on a tour around the Sustainable Impacts Biogas plant in Bengaluru. The same was featured by the Times of India in the article below.

HDI at Zomaland by Zomato

We organized the at-source waste segregation, collection and transportation of waste for Zomaland by Zomato, one of India's grandest food carnivals. We successfully handled a total of 21,862 kilos of waste from over 20,000 people!

HDI at the Under 25 Summit

With a team of 98 green-collar™ workers, supervised by 13 of our experienced supervisors, we handled the waste for a crowd of more than 25,000 people at Under 25 Summit held at Embassy Riding School, Bengaluru.

Brand Engagements

HSBC , National Safety Week Event

We were invited to showcase a pop-up of our products and services on the occasion of the National Safety Week. Our team represented environmental safety at the event & presented about our services of Total Waste Management and Event Waste Management. They also explained about our Plastic Aggregation vertical for supply of post-consumer plastics to global brands such as H&M and Cofresco Frischhalteprodukte GmbH & Co. KG .

Zerodha , Employee Engagement for Refillable

Our Refill truck, a partnership with GreenLit , intrigued the employees at Zerodha, who were enthusiastic about sustainability. Our team presented the diverse range of homecare products that can be refilled instead of buying a new plastic bottle each time. They engaged in dialogues on the importance of reducing plastics to tackle the waste problem.

Marketplace for a Corporate, Electronic City, Global Recycling Day Event

We were invited to curate a marketplace of sustainable brands for one of our client companies to raise awareness amongst their employees on various eco-friendly options available in the market. We had a fantastic line-up of brands that adopt sustainability in their production, packaging and products. Our partners for this marketplace included Bare Necessities Zero Waste Solutions , Akshayakalpa Organic , Wasted 360 Solutions , Daily Dump , Sampoornahara, and Eco-Petals Pvt. Ltd.

Firstsource , Refillable for Employees

The Refill truck also visited the premises of First Source Solutions where our team spoke to the employees about Refilling as a revolution to reduce plastics.

Conversations with the Community

LinkedIn LIVE with Akshayakalpa Organic

On the occasion of Recycling Day on March 18th, we hosted a conversation with our partner Akshayakalpa. The CEOs of the two companies, Shekar Prabhakar and Shashi Kumar , engaged in a conversation about what can consumers and brands do to create a waste-free world. To read the key highlights from the conversation, click here. To watch the LIVE episode, click on the tab below.

Conversation on Inclusive Circularity, TERI

Shekar Prabhakar , our CEO & Co-founder spoke at a panel discussion on Inclusive Circularity alongside, Smita Rakesh (VP, Social Alpha ), Sandhya Narayanan (Founding Member, Solid Waste Management Roundtable ( SWMRT) ), Maria Bystedt (Strategy Lead, H&M Foundation ), moderated by Akshay Soni (Executive Director, Saamuhika Shakti ).

The event was curated by the Saamuhika Shakti team to spark discussion amongst like-minded groups on how commercial and philanthropic capital can come together for collective impact. The conversation was featured by Deccan Herald in the article below.

LinkedIn LIVE with the echo network | #ZeroHero Contest

We conducted a contest called #ZeroHero for netizens to explore their relationship with waste through art. The contest in collaboration with the echo network was a hit with people as they brought forward creative ways for a sustainable lifestyle. We had a LinkedIn LIVE conversation between Shekar Prabhakar , our Co-founder and CEO, and Shannon Olsson , Global Director at the echo network , in which they spoke about why is it important to be waste-conscious. Watch the episode through the tab below.

Standford SEED Transformation Network

Shekar Prabhakar from HDI participated in the various discussions on entrepreneurial solutions for social impact as part of the SEED Global Summit held in Mumbai from 9th to 11th March.

Cleaning the City, one household at a time

At Hasiru Dala Innovations, Total Waste Management services or TWM are a core part of our operations. Through TWM services, we offer professional waste collection for apartments, villas and corporate premises, ensuring that all municipal solid waste generated reaches responsible destinations.

WFTO & POSH Training Continues across the HDI ecosystem

In the last newsletter, we updated you about training our workers in the Principles of World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) and the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act. We continued this series of training across our wastepicker entrepreneurs’ facilities during March with support from Voice of SASHA .

Looking forward to the month

We hope that April is as happening as March, that we meet more people & brands, continue our operations successfully, and bring happiness to the lives of the wastepickers who work with us.

For any feedback, queries or collaboration requests, please write to us at vividha@hasirudalainnovations. We are happy to take your suggestions to make our work better.

We leave you with some of the latest videos from our YouTube Channel.

Have a happy month ahead!

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