Counterbalance (2009)

Waste-pickers, or waste recyclers, are persons who earn an income from the house-to-house pick up of waste, the sale of scrap materials and recycling. Waste recyclers are not unique to India, but represent a global workforce.Their work, measured to be highly efficient, has not only been undervalued but even marginalized with the introduction of large private companies.Counterbalance is an advocacy video on the right to livelihood of waste recyclers in Delhi. It calls for the inclusion of waste recyclers as valuable private players in the waste and recycling management in Delhi.