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Its central characters include Abdul, a garbage sorter, members of his family and neighbors.
" 'I never believed I'd be alive for another 10 years or so".' Lee Eun-seok, 77, who had applied for a job as a garbage sorter, said, "I hope my daughter-in-law asks us to live with them soon".
- M, 23. "Worked as garbage sorter with bums".
In Jai Bhawani Nagar, a patchwork of slum dwellings covered in blue tarpaulins that sits behind the abandoned mill where the rape took place, residents said the sketch was strikingly similar to a garbage sorter who lived in a one-room structure with his siblings and grandmother.
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MAYBE they will, but maybe they'll just tire of working as unpaid garbage sorters, especially if they realize how little the end product is worth.
It was a bad bet; Mr. William is one of Argentina's 125,000 garbage sorters, who collect recyclables, earning about $2 a day.
I was so pleased with the article on how plastic-bottle recycling equipment works ("Recycling Sorters Ensure That Garbage In Isn't Garbage Out," April 6) that I engaged people I'd never met before on the subway in discussing it.
Yet that's where the focus of the business and labor communities is these days, as they await a decision by the National Labor Relations Board on the status of some 120 workers employed as sorters of recyclable garbage.
The same authors [ 62] also analysed skin and gastrointestinal symptoms among 40 garbage handlers, 8 composters and 20 paper sorters from all over Denmark, and found that garbage handlers had an increased risk of skin itching, and vomiting or diarrhoea.
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 extricate paper, cardboard and plastics from garbage heaps and prepare them for reuse.
"Most plastic straws are too lightweight" to make it through mechanical sorters, and their relatively small size means straws are often disposed as garbage — and end up polluting our oceans, according to Strawless Oceans, one of many ocean advocacy groups targeting plastic straws.
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