A Voice for Waste Programme works by collaborating with the informal waste-recycling sector, facilitating the sector's participation in policymaking and leading a green lifestyle and advocating for policies governing social and environmental justice by engaging in publications, campaigns, networks and partnerships.

A major portion of this programme is carried out in partnership with an association of waste recyclers called Safai Sena.

The Scavengers to Managers Programme works for waste pickers' welfare by creating green jobs for them at the grass-root level. Green jobs refer to jobs which allow a worker to earn minimum wage, have a safe, legal and toxin-free work environment; and at the same time, deal with goods and services which are environmentally sustainable.

For the management of solid waste, it partners with various formal entities such as the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam, Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) in Delhi, and Safai Sena to establish solid-waste handling systems which create green jobs which in most cases involve doorstep waste collection.

It also helps informal doorstep waste collectors formalise their work by facilitating legal contracts with RWAs.

The No Child in Trash Programme aims to ensure that children of waste-pickers can choose a career other than waste-picking and there is no next generation of waste-pickers. It works with children who are engaged in waste-picking and provides them with customised education to train them to enrol and stay in formal schools, facilitates exchange programmes for these children with formal schools and organises parent-teacher meetings to help the parents and/or guardians to support the children in their efforts, organises activities to equip the children with enhanced knowledge about their city, governance, and rights, and also provides the children with access to healthcare.

Is a registered association of waste workers, It comprises over 12,000 workers from over 3 states in North India. The association gives voice to the recognition and importance of waste-pickers and small traders as key players in the waste management space. It fights against the bias that society holds against them.

The office of the Safai Sena Secretariat is housed within the premises of Chintan Environmental Research And Action Group.

Chintan Environmental Research And Action Group undertakes a range of training programmes that enable individuals, communities and institutions to reduce consumption and waste, segregate, recycle and compost.

The organisation has experience in training waste pickers and waste workers directly. It also trains officials and institutions about e-waste so that they are able to make good decisions.