Waste Warriors is a for-impact solid waste management organisation. Our journey began in 2010 in the littered mountains of Dharamshala with just empty bags, some gloves, a few volunteers, and a vision to clean India.

Since 2010, over 400 million tourists have visited the Himalayan states of Uttarakhand and Himachal where we work, so there is a dire need build waste management systems to mitigate the impact of waste pollution, especially plastics, in this eco-sensitive region and further downhill into major Indian rivers. 

Waste Warriors now has over 80 staff, including formalized waste workers, working to build sustainable waste management models in the urban sprawl of Dehradun, in the tourist hills of Dharamshala, by the Ganga river in holy Rishikesh, and in forest villages around Corbett Tiger Reserve near Ramnagar and Govind Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttarkashi.