A Scrap of Decency
From India to Brazil to the Philippines, recyclers are experiencing a precipitous drop in income. Trash pickers and scrap dealers in Minas Gerais State in Brazil, for example, saw a decline of as much as 80 percent in the price of old magazines and 81 percent for newspapers, and a 77 percent drop in the price of cardboard from October 2007 to last December. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via New York Times (Opinion), Opinion Source, AllTop, NewsRack (Climate Change), New York Times (Most Emailed), NewsRack (Energy)
