Delhi's Wastepickers: recycling rubbish Indian style

Delhi's Wastepickers: recycling rubbish Indian style

Working conditions on the site are hazardous as lorries and bulldozers dump and move the waste around with scant thought for the wastepickers who work with no protective clothing. Rag pickers on the Ghazipur Landfill, Ghazipur, New Delhi, India, 10th July 2009 Wastepickers scour through the landfill looking for recyclable paper, metals, glass, and plasticsŃanything they can sell for their survival. Each worker can collect 50-60 kg of recyclables per day worth 150 to 300 rupees (Ł2 to Ł4). Lorries arrive almost constantly day and night bringing waste mostly from community skips around the city. Landfill wastepickers comprise the lowest tier of the informal wastepicking sector, they search through the waste that has already been sifted once by door-to-door collectors many of whom are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh or rural Indians moving to the cities in the hopes of finding work. There is estimated to be 150,000 wastepickers working across Delhi. This is 1 percent of the cityŐs population and between them they recycle 20 percent of what the city throws away and in doing so save the the Municipal Corporation of Delhi 600,000 rupees (nearly Ł8000) every day but despite this there is no official government recognition of the wastepickers and no thought of including them in the proposed modernisation of the sector that is being rushed through in an effort to clean the city up for the forthcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games. Though wastepicking in its current form might seem best done away with, concerned NGOŐs are campaigning to get the informal waste collectors recognised and included in any new model as has has recently been achieved in Colombia and Brazil where similar circumstances prevail. These NGOŐs maintain that a rushed privatisation without including the wastepickers - a huge pool of experts already trained in their field - would not improve the service and only add problems without solving current ones, while also depriving the wastepickers of their livlihood. © Simon de Trey-White / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: info@eyevine.com http:///www.eyevine.com ( automatický preklad  ) ( ukáž pôvodný text )
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Umiestnenie:,India
Dátum vzniku:10.7.2009
Dátum pridania:11.11.2009
Kolekcia : Prezerať všetky zábery
Fotograf: Ukáž celé portfólio
Model release:Nie je k dispozícii
Property release:Nie je k dispozícii
Max. dostupná veľkosť:načítavanie...
Typ licencie:Rights-managed
Reštrikcia
Je to dielo spravodajského servisu určené len pre účely spravodajskej služby podľa § 12 (3) zákona č 40/1964 Zb., Občiansky zákonník, v znení neskorších predpisov.