Monday, March 1, 2010

Recycling

This is how garbage is recycled to a large extent in India.Each major city has millions of ragpickers,mostly very poor people who have been forced out of rural areas because of poverty and drawn to the opportunities in cities.They live in shanties and slums and eke out a living by collecting recyclable trash and sorting them out.Ragpickers sell paper,cardboard,bottles,tins , plastic and cloth to scrap dealers who aggregate the scrap and dispatch it to the factories with the capacity to recycle them.