Exnora is a Chennai-based organization that has worked on community waste management since 1989. It provides door-to-door collection by training waste pickers to sort garbage and compost it locally. Residents pay a monthly service fee for the service.
Vatavaran is a Delhi-based citizen group. Its innovative project Cleaning Brigade serves several thousand people in Delhi neighborhoods, including a university campus.
RISE (Residents Initiative For Safe Environment) is a residents' association in Bangalore that has been operating since August 1997. Its members are committed to keeping their area clean and free from overflowing garbage. Its core committee consists of volunteer members. RISE charges residents a monthly fee for waste management services.
The Advance Locality Management Scheme (ALM) in Mumbai involves residents who segregate, compost and recycle waste locally. It operates in 643 low-income neighborhoods and prevents approximately 20 to 25 tons of garbage per day from reaching the dump yards. Women manage 80 percent of the ALM organizations.
Stree Mukti Sanghatana - Mumbai organizes women ragpickers through a program called Parisar Vikas in cooperation with the Brihan Mumbai Mumbai Corporation (BMC). Women ragpickers are given identity cards and are trained in cleanliness and hygiene. They learn to collect and handle garbage, transport it to garbage pits, and manage the pits.
Since the early 1990s, Srishti has been pioneering multi-stakeholder approaches to waste management. This model involves using waste pickers to collect waste through community waste management organizations, and helps them recycle and compost the waste. Srishti has introduced the concept of low-cost local technologies such as vermi composting pits and small bioreactors that convert manure to gas and fuel.