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A Chinese laborer loads a machine with plastic as it is chopped into small pieces before being recycled in Dongxiaokou village on the outskirts of Beijing. The village is made up mostly of families of poor migrant workers who have come from surrounding provinces and are some of the tens of thousands of scrap peddlers surviving on recycling goods collected in China’s capital. China is the world’s biggest generator of solid waste and as the country’s population and economy continue to grow the peddlers are integral to the waste and recycling management system in major cities.
Related:
- This Chinese Filmmaker Can’t Stop Talking Trash, by Sun Yunfan, January 30, 2014
- Trash Talk with Adam Minter, from Sinica Podcast, April 25, 2014
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A Chinese laborer loads a machine with plastic as it is chopped into small pieces before being recycled in Dongxiaokou village on the outskirts of Beijing. The village is made up mostly of families of poor migrant workers who have come from surrounding provinces and are some of the tens of thousands of scrap peddlers surviving on recycling goods collected in China’s capital. China is the world’s biggest generator of solid waste and as the country’s population and economy continue to grow the peddlers are integral to the waste and recycling management system in major cities.
Related:
- This Chinese Filmmaker Can’t Stop Talking Trash, by Sun Yunfan, January 30, 2014
- Trash Talk with Adam Minter, from Sinica Podcast, April 25, 2014