legacy waste removal

In cities across India, land once buried under waste now serves people again, becoming football fields and urban forests shaped by vision, local action, and patience.

Once a towering dump, Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill is now fuelling change. By upcycling 100 tonnes of legacy waste into 50,000 eco-bricks, Vipul Singh and Gunraagh Talwar are proving that even garbage mountains can be rebuilt into hope.

For decades, Rajkot’s Nakrawadi was buried under waste. Today, it’s a thriving urban forest with 2.35 lakh trees and water systems — reborn through a bold city-led transformation.