Comments on: Hurting the Informal Sector http://urbanplanningblog.com/388/hurting-the-informal-sector/ Thoughts on Urban Planning and Design Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:21:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rohit http://urbanplanningblog.com/388/hurting-the-informal-sector/#comment-188 Rohit Sat, 10 May 2008 16:51:00 +0000 http://urbanplanningblog.com/2008/04/29/hurting-the-informal-sector/#comment-188 It's an interesting question, Pratik and I suspect the answers are not as simple as folks at city fix would like us to believe for that matter the government. While the rights of wastepickers are important, they have to be balanced against the right of the society to have a functional waste disposal system. How is the recycling industry being run? What are the environmental costs? Most Delhi hospitals have no proper system of disposal of bio-hazardous materials; there have been cases of syringes being recycled after being picked up by wastepickers. And then of course the old question: Is 1 among 100 a large number? Depends entirely I guess on how you frame it. It can be ''as many as 1 in 100'' ''or as few as 1 in hundred. '' It’s an interesting question, Pratik and I suspect the answers are not as simple as folks at city fix would like us to believe for that matter the government. While the rights of wastepickers are important, they have to be balanced against the right of the society to have a functional waste disposal system. How is the recycling industry being run? What are the environmental costs? Most Delhi hospitals have no proper system of disposal of bio-hazardous materials; there have been cases of syringes being recycled after being picked up by wastepickers.

And then of course the old question: Is 1 among 100 a large number? Depends entirely I guess on how you frame it. It can be ”as many as 1 in 100” ”or as few as 1 in hundred. ”

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