Trash-To-Energy Plan Worries New Delhi Ragpickers
From WRAL
Leaning on a battered set of scales while flies swarmed his piles of trash, Akbar said he wasn”t demanding much: “All I want is continued access to waste.”
Akbar is one of an estimated quarter-million people in New Delhi who make their living in the informal world of garbage. While ragpickers go door-to-door collecting and sorting waste, Akbar, a 29-year-old who uses only one name, is a middleman who buys the most valuable trash and resells it to recyclers.
