Sampurn(e)arth provides context-based decentralized solid waste management solutions which are environmentally friendly, profitable and actively engage waste-pickers. The goal is to break the current non-cyclic process of waste management (involving extraction, production, consumption and dumping or landfilling of natural resources) resulting in greenhouse gas emissions, ground water pollution and natural resource limitation.

Envisioning a world where waste is transformed into utilizable resources without exploitation of people or the planet, Sampurn(e)arth endeavours to transform the non-cyclic waste-management process into a cyclic process through a decentralized waste management system. Apart from appropriate processing and recycling, a decentralized system saves considerable transportation costs and eliminates the related emissions. Our interventions include:
a. Waste audit
b. Designing customized Waste Management System
c. Implementing a cyclic Waste Management system
d. Operation and maintenance of the system
e. Enhancing environmental awareness.
To provide alternate livelihood for the waste-pickers, trained waste-pickers are engaged and associated with Stree Mukti Sanghatana (SMS), a reputed NGO in Mumbai. To address numerous challenges of waste-pickers and to enable them to be part of formal waste management services, they have been organized into waste-picker SHGs, co-operatives and a federation of 1500 women waste pickers named Parisar Bhagini Vikas Sangh (PBVS).