[Reader-list] ragpicking or recycling: from squattercity

[Naeem Mohaiemen]

> From: Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu at xs4all.nl>
> it falls to the city's ragpickers, one of India's poorest and most
> marginalized groups, to provide this basic service for fellow citizens."

New York-based writer Heather Rogers has an excellent project looking
at garbage.  It started life as a book, and then became a film.

"Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage"
- Heather Rogers

"It is not a shock that the United States is the number one producer
of garbage on the planet; with just 5 percent of the global population
we generate 30 percent of the world's trash. The average American
throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily -- that's 1,600
pounds each year, according to Rogers. And garbage is also a global
problem; today the middle of the Pacific Ocean is six times more
abundant with plastic waste than zooplankton." [Don Hazen in preface
to interview]

Interview With Heather Rogers
http://www.alternet.org/story/27456/