Chintan addresses issues of sustainable consumption and social equity. Seeks to improve consumption choices and practices that benefit both our health and our environment and encourage practices that are sustainable and do not burden the poor. Mission: To work with the Informal sector involved in municipal solid waste management in enhancing their living as well as working conditions and assisting them to optimize their skills and role in the waste management sector as well as build their capacity to contribute to a healthy, safe society. To educate citizens about their environmental duties and means of implementing them. To help and encourage children of various strata of society to determine their own role in environmental preservation. To help the Informal waste sector to be able to build social defence mechanisms in order to move from being marginalized to mainstream participants and contributors to the social and economic development of the country. To find suitable means of involving the Informal waste sector in formal, organized delivery of waste related services in India . To stem biodiversity loss taking place through the inflow of toxics through research, campaigning and advocacy. To identify and reduce the manufacture and consumption of hazardous wastes and materials through research, campaigning and advocacy. To facilitate the rationalization of packaging used through better laws and material consumption as well as education and fiscal steps.
