(04/08/2021-Excerpt from Institution Website)

Chintan reduces waste and consumption, manages solid and electronic waste and advocates around materials, waste and consumption. It uses waste as a tool to fight poverty, child labour gender based violence and exclusion and climate change, while creating green livelihoods. Chintan pushes back and combats unsustainable consumption. Its work directly supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17. Chintan manages over 30 tons of solid and electronic waste every day in the Delhi region by doorstep collection, segregation, recycling and composting. Chintan works with waste recyclers, especially wastepickers, to change the social impact of solid and electronic waste on their lives. From being poisoned by these wastes, they learn to profit from them. Chintan works with wastepickers' communities to enable working and vulnerable children in these communities to phase-out from this hazardous work, enroll and stay in school, and learn about their rights, safety and life-skills and prepare for their lives ahead. Chintan offers a range of trainings that are either hands-on, or to help understand and use the law. It trains individuals, communities and institutions to reduce consumption and waste, segregate, recycle and compost. It trains officials and institutions to help learn about waste and e-waste so they are empowered to take good decisions.