We do not like to admit failures. But why not? Why not understand failures as something productive, something that helps us and our partners to flourish and grow?

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that municipal solid waste management is not only one of the most pressing environmental challenges in cities of the global south, but also crucial for public health, urban resilience and influencing gender relations.

Field visit recap to Muttathara Resource Recovery Facility in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The facility is viewed as a post-crisis governance solution responding to failed centralised solid waste management facility in Vilpalsala.

Enterprising individuals are transforming 7% of the waste collection at Sisdol landfill site that consists of old rags and clothes into fibre, which in turn produces mattresses.

The 2nd annual progress sharing and review meeting of the Project “Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste Management: Learning from Post-Crisis Governance Initiatives in South Asia (SWM governance in South Asia: South-South Learning)”.