New Delhi (AP) - against in a mistreated scale, while the fly rushed to his piles of rubbish, akbar er said that he did not demanding too much: "I want to continue to waste."
Akbar is an estimated 250000 people in new Delhi, make their living garbage in the informal world. Although scavenger to what the door collection, sorting waste, akbar, a 29-year-old only use a person's name, it is a middleman to buy the most value of garbage, and resale to the recycling business.
Those who survive depends on the grey market worry that their lives were overthrown. There they saw money in those piles of rubbish, new Delhi government thinks that power.
Despair of cheap energy, new Delhi's government is test fuel power plants of garbage. A factory in based on pilot run two is under construction.
If these plants to online, they will generate enough power, power 50000, in India's capital, new Delhi produced 8000 tons of garbage a day combustion. Drag, the garbage from family and office private company, not the network scavenger came to the city to seek opportunity, find it spiral street garbage cart.
Some recovery 100 kilograms (220 pounds) every day can earn as much as 6, but the most earn about $4.
Akbar is tycoon, with nine collectors to find his people sell their sifting waste.
"Others see dirty, I saw the opportunity," he said, proud to measuring the mountains of garbage and wild shot flies hovering near the mouth.
City officials declined repeated requests for comment, but said, the garbage collection problem is complex, are studying.
Environmentalists joined the scavenger in against waste to energy plan, said incineration is neither a clean, nor renewable energy.
But for scavenger, "the most important thing is garbage visit, and India Kabadi Mazdoor Mahasangh, a group of representative scavenger, researchers said:" DEMARIA federico. "" if (waste into energy) the factory began to burn, the government accused of the hundreds of thousands of people unimaginable poverty. "
Their life is very difficult. MuNa and his five illiteracy, o son of ragpicker garbage collection about 1700, its income must have spent a lot of bribes and rent. They live in shelters made of plastic film and metal corrugated covers an area of 70 acres (hectares) of public landfill site a nearby cluster.
"This work is difficult, life difficult, said:" MuNa, sitting in a small rope bed in front of his hut. But, he added, living well, than in his former residence in poverty in bihar.
"Scavenger live a hazy legal existence. They bribe rights, urban refuse collection, do city 30000 official garbage collection should do the work, but do not, believe that the government would not deliberately to try to fire them.
Akbar family and office brick buildings, surrounded by piles of paper, plastic and glass high 10 feet (3 meters high). He pointed out that, a rusty tricycle installed plastic bottle and said with a smile, pushing the Wall Street brokers.
Recycle bin "just like our gold," he said. "Prices are changing frequently, so we need to monitor the situation and the peak of the cash."
Although he likes his smart phones and clean clothes, he didn't know he will do, if other residents near the poor Seemapuri thousands of new plant put into production.
"The recovery is 70% to 80% of the residents do, we have nowhere to go," he said.
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