Recycling worker works sifting through the rubbish whilst a cycle taxi rides past, an everyday secene in Phnom Penh. Rural peasants who have left the countryside in search of earning a decent living often end up as recycling workers on Phnom Penh's city streets. They earn a few dollars a day from selling by weight the plastic bottles, aluminium cans and cardboard they collect during a days work. Usually they work from the mid afternoon until midnight, sorting through the rubbish on the...
more »

Recycling worker works sifting through the rubbish whilst a cycle taxi rides past, an everyday secene in Phnom Penh. Rural peasants who have left the countryside in search of earning a decent living often end up as recycling workers on Phnom Penh's city streets. They earn a few dollars a day from selling by weight the plastic bottles, aluminium cans and cardboard they collect during a days work. Usually they work from the mid afternoon until midnight, sorting through the rubbish on the streets. They take what they collect to small sorting houses on the edge of the city.
« less