Integrated Solid Waste Management in Ulhasnagar 1, Ulhasnagar.

Camp 1's markets and packed housing generate heavy volumes of waste on very little ground, and much of it gets mixed on the street before it is collected. We work with market associations, housing societies and the municipality on segregation at source, collection points that do not block lanes, and routes that take recyclables to recyclers and wet waste to processing. The aim is modest and practical: less waste on the road, and less of it sent to a dumpsite.

Ulhasnagar 1 is the camp at the Shahad end of the city, closest to Kalyan and to the Ulhas. Like the other camps it began as rows of barracks for families arriving after Partition, and those rows were rebuilt, extended and built upon until they became narrow streets of three- and four-storey buildings. Shops and small workshops occupy the ground floors, and homes fill the floors above. Markets draw buyers from Kalyan, Ambernath and the villages beyond. Open land barely exists, and many of the older buildings are now due for redevelopment.