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Scavengers Face Trash Shortage

Delhi may lose green credential by replacing ragpickers

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 18, 2007 7:05 PM CST

(Newser) – Delhi’s 300,000 ragpickers "are the original recyclers," the Economist reports—but their trade of mining trash for re-sellable goods is in trouble. The city, hoping to clean up for the 2010 Commonwealth games, has hired private companies to collect trash—and... Read full story »

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