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An Indian woman sorts reusable items from a landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi in March 2021. Trash pickers sometimes toil alongside paid municipal sanitation workers and provide a vital service to cities. Their subsistence work is put at risk by smart city technologies. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Smart city technologies pose serious threats to women waste workers in India

Josie Wittmer, Queen's University, Ontario

‘Smart’ solutions to urban solid waste are creating serious challenges for low-income women waste workers in India.

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