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Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun, zany approach to cleanup
Passersby do a double take when they see Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto. The two men glide through Tokyo’s bustling Ikebukuro district in full-length (...)
‘We were treated as disposable beings’: Waste pickers in Colombia fought for their rights after 11 murders
Back in 1992, security guards at the Universidad Libre in the Colombian city of Barranquilla came up with a way to help the medical school — and (...)
In Mumbai, waste pickers do the heavy lifting of recycling
Ali Mohammad, a recycler in Dharavi, an informal settlement in Mumbai, one of India’s largest cities, sorts through a mountain of plastic ice (...)
Trash sorters in Ghana face health and safety risks
This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Thirty-six-year-old Johnson Doe has worked as a waste picker (...)
El Fuego volcano erupts in Guatemala
Last Thursday, the El Fuego (The Fire) volcano in Guatemala took things to another level. A huge, mushroom-shaped plume of black smoke erupted (...)
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