by Sudeep KP
WastEd is a waste education initiative by Funeducated — exploring the stories, systems, and solutions behind one of the world's most urgent challenges. From landfills to living rooms, from policy to practice, WastEd breaks down where waste comes from, where it goes, and what we can do about it. For more information visit https://funeducated.com/wasted/ and email us at hello@sudeep.org for collaboration.
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June 11, 2026
<p>What does a truly zero-waste city look like — and does one already exist in India? In this episode of Wasted, Shreya takes us inside three Indian cities that stopped waiting for a perfect solution and built their own. Alappuzha, a backwater town in Kerala, now sends less than 2% of its waste to landfill — using nothing more than community composting and political resolve. Indore has topped the Swachh Survekshan rankings for seven years straight, powered by GPS-tracked trucks, musical collection vans, and a civic commitment that outlasted elections. And Pune's SWaCH cooperative put 4,000 waste pickers — mostly Dalit women — at the centre of a system that now serves 6 lakh households with a 95% satisfaction rate.</p><p>These aren't outliers. They're blueprints. This episode is about what happens when cities stop treating waste workers as an afterthought and start treating them as infrastructure — and what it would take for every Indian city to follow suit.</p><p>This week's action: Look up your city's Swachh Survekshan rank, and ask your local councillor one simple question — what is our ward's waste segregation rate?</p><p>Wasted is a Waste Education Initiative by Funeducated.</p><p>For more information or collaboration, visit www.funeducated.com/wasted or email hello@sudeep.org</p>
June 9, 2026
<p>Only 9% of all plastic ever produced has actually been recycled — and in this episode, Shreya unpacks why. From the 1970s industry campaign that sold us recycling as a fix for single-use plastic, to why most of what you put in the blue bin ends up in landfill anyway, this episode dismantles the myth that recycling alone can solve our plastic problem. We look at India's bin system, the informal recycling powerhouse of Dharavi, and why Extended Producer Responsibility — not better bins — might be the real path forward.</p><p><br></p><p>For more details or collaboration visit www.funeducated.com or email hello@sudeep.org</p><p><br></p><p></p>
May 12, 2026
<p>Hazardous waste doesn't disappear — it settles. Into soil, into water, into the bodies of people who never chose to live near it. In this episode, Shreya traces the geography of toxic waste in India, who bears its burden, and why the law alone has not been enough to stop it.</p><p>For more information visit www.funeducated.com or email us at hello@sudeep.org</p>
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WastEd is a waste education initiative by Funeducated — exploring the stories, systems, and solutions behind one of the world's most urgent challenges. From landfills to living rooms, from policy to practice, WastEd breaks down where waste comes from, where it goes, and what we can do about it.
For more information visit https://funeducated.com/wasted/ and email us at hello@sudeep.org for collaboration.
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