Your trash was their ‘treasure’, but lockdown has pushed them to near-starvation
Waste pickers’ incomes decimated as recycling facilities shut and demand for reusable materials declines
20 April 2021 - 19:48
Hundreds of thousands of waste pickers and their families have been pushed to the brink of starvation under SA’s Covid-19 lockdown...
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