A Scrap of Decency

Jason Polan / NY Times

Bharati Chaturvedi, The New York Times | Full Story | Among those suffering from the global recession are millions of workers who are not even included in the official statistics: urban recyclers—the trash pickers, sorters, traders and reprocessors who do the vital job of extricating paper, cardboard and plastics from garbage heaps and prepare them for reuse. >>

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