Projects

Our Approach

We believe that our planet needs an urgent paradigm shift, one where everyone must share limited resources, while addressing the issues of acute poverty and unequal growth. In India, this translates into policies that are not only inclusive of poor and marginal communities, but are actively shaped by their opinions and concerns. NaiDisha, therefore, creates partnerships with such communities to help them understand governance and advocate for change that will usher in greater equity.

Among the urban poor, NaiDisha has decided to focus on partnerships with informal-sector waste recyclers. This is because they are marginalized and discriminated against, despite the fact that their work is highly efficient and includes essential green services such as waste collection and recycling; and they are poorly organized. It was clear to us that working with them would have the greatest impact on our mission.

The strategies we employ are to identify key barriers to our mission, and address them in the local, national and global contexts through participatory research, advocating for policy shifts, developing grassroots capacity, and creating scalable and sustainable models on the ground.

Our Initiatives

The vast quantity of waste that is the result of modern lifestyles—especially of the affluent—is one of the causes of greenhouse gas emissions. Even in a developing country like India, poor waste management contributes to over 3% of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This is because despite the fact that a majority of Indians live in poverty, there is a huge and growing middle class (over 300 million by recent statistics) that is consuming more, often indiscriminately, and producing more waste than ever before.

What we do to reduce carbon emission?

• The Low Carbon Futures programme reminds us that India is a country where it is possible to live well and still consume sensibly and sustainably.
• As part of the Low Carbon Futures programme, we work with bulk waste producers—shopping malls other large organizatons—to green their procurement and reduce wastage. We also collect and recycle their waste, instead of letting it emit greenhouse gases in landfills.
• In each case, we first focus on efficient waste handling and then work backwards to green their procurement. We do this by creating awareness among employees, doing regular waste audits, and working with the administration and HR departments to institutionalize the change.
• By allowing us to handle your trash and green both your procurement and disposal of materials, you would directly be a part of efforts to save the environment, reduce poverty in Delhi, create green jobs for the urban poor and reduce child labour.
• To become a part of this solution, please email us at naidisha86@gmail.com

Green Housing Societies

Every day, millions of people across India earn a living by working in trash—this includes over 1.5 million waste pickers, as well as itinerant buyers, small and large waste traders, workers in these godowns and reprocessors. Their work involves picking waste, segregating it, cleaning it, dismantling it, transporting it and trading in it. They are effectively the primary recycling system in India and help keep the environment cleaner than it would otherwise be. But the work of the recyclers themselves is far from being a green job, and very far from being secure.
While they offer invaluable services to the city, recyclers have few rights and operate in uncertain and poor working conditions. Every day, they are exposed to deadly poisons, are forced to pay bribes simply to do their job, are harassed and suffer violation of their basic rights.
NaiDisha addresses this by helping build green businesses at the bottom of the pyramid, chiefly among wastepickers. Our understanding of green jobs in the Indian context builds on the widespread international understanding. We define a green job as one that not only results in environmentally sustainable goods and services, but also one that enables a worker to earn minimum wages, work safely and legally and not be exposed to toxins. Some examples of this are doorstep waste collection, composting and primary treatment of PET plastics.
How we do this
• Our green army help set up solid-waste handling systems that result in green jobs. In most cases, this involves doorstep waste collection. In the Ghaziabad, we have been contracted to serve over 1000 households as well as other establishments.
• Nai Disha also works with informal doorstep waste collectors to help them formalize their work through legal contracts with RWAs.
• Apart from doorstep collection, we has trained wastepickers to handle waste from several offices, hotels, malls, large buildings and restaurants.

E-Waste Mangement

Nai Disha provides e-Waste Recycling and Management Solutions for Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
Our prime objective is to contribute immensely towards a healthy and safe environment. By picking and recycling Waste Electronic Items, we minimize e-Waste to a great extent, which is increasing at a very rapid rate in our day-to- day life.nWe are a socially responsible organization and concerned towards the environment. We pick old, scrap and end-of- life waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment and recycle them to produce new and useful products. Thus, we are playing an important role in e-Waste Recycling and
Management, which has become a necessity now. We at Nai Disha offer safest and most reliable disposal of e-Waste.

If you have any e-Waste material and want to dispose it, write to us at naidisha86@gmail.com or touch base with us at +91 8750721852.

It will be a great pleasure for us to give you our best service.