Asia-Pacific
The more than 200 regional GAIA members from 20 countries in this region face a whole gamut of public health, environmental justice and sustainability issues, and our members work on problems related to municipal solid waste, healthcare waste and toxic and hazardous waste, including electronic waste. Learn more.
In the Spotlight
Groups Urge Representatives to Champion Zero Waste at Climate Talks
18 November 2008 Quezon City. Members of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and the Ecowaste Coalition today called on the Philippine delegation to the upcoming climate talks in Poznan, Poland to take up the cudgels for the climate by pushing for the quickest and cheapest strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Garbage as a metaphor
by Nityanand Jayaraman, http://infochangeindia.org/Agenda/Against-exclusion/Garbage-as-a-metaphor.html
by Nityanand Jayaraman, http://infochangeindia.org/Agenda/Against-exclusion/Garbage-as-a-metaphor.html
There are many who claim that modern-day discrimination is based solely on economic terms, not on caste or communal lines. But the view from Kamatchi Devi's house in the Kodungaiyur garbage dump in Chennai is different. Where there is hazardous waste you will only find dalit and other backward castes. Like trash, some people are still considered disposable.
Innovative models of waste management
by Kannal Achuthan, http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/12/stories/2008111260220300.htm
by Kannal Achuthan, http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/12/stories/2008111260220300.htm
11 November, 2008. Chennai, India: Solid waste management experts, from various parts of the country, presented innovative and feasible models of handling municipal garbage at a meeting here on Tuesday.
Groups ask to strike out incinerator loan payment in 2009 Philippine budget
by GAIA/HCWH
by GAIA/HCWH
8 October, 2008. Environmentalists and anti-debt advocates trooped today to the House of Representatives to ask lawmakers to strike out in the proposed national budget the payment for what they call an illegitimate debt to Austria involving the Department of Health's purchase of twenty-six medical waste incinerators in 1997.
Grassroots groups voice concern over “waste to energy” incinerators in India
12 August 2008, Thiruvananthapuram, India, Grassroots community leaders and activists working on sustainable waste solutions threw their support for Zero Waste over ‘waste to energy ‘ (WTE) incinerators, saying that incineration not only threatens public health and the environment but also deprives rag pickers of their livelihood.
Residents stop land transfer for toxic Waste to Energy plant
by Gopal Krishna
by Gopal Krishna
New Delhi: Land handover ceremony for the incineration based waste to energy (WTE) project that proposed in the residential area of Okhla (Sukhdev Vihar) was cancelled today amid bitter and almost violent protest from the residents. As a consequence, the scheduled transfer of land from NDMC to Jindal Urban Infrastructure Ltd for the proposed plant did not happen.
