We are a waste management/resource recovery social startup working with multiple stakeholders - governments, brands, informal sector, and consumers - to divert as much waste away from landfills and oceans, back into the economy to get reused or recycled.

Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Design and support housing communities towards best practices of solid waste management
2. Help us achieve the aim to test and identify different interventions in the communities towards driving behavior change on waste management practices
3. Work on the project to be done with 2000 households within R/North ward (Dahisar) of Mumbai where we are currently running an MRF
4. Work to get the expected outcome of the project i.e. to get the households to segregate their waste
5. Onboard housing societies towards implementing the pilot for 2000 households
6. Once housing societies are onboard, collect baseline data of household awareness level and dry waste generated in the selected housing societies before the pilot
7. Coordinate with housing societies during pilot implementation, identify local champions in the housing societies for further sustainability of projects
8. Distribute waste management toolkit to individual households
9. Coordinate with partner team towards the implementation of certain strategic interventions for housing societies
10. Identify different interventions which can be tested in the pilot project
11. Undertake training and capacity building of the housekeeping and cleaning staff in housing societies
12. Update and maintain quantities of dry waste collected from housing societies on a weekly/biweekly basis
13. Collect the end line data from households at the end of 3 months

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