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Phnom Penh's recycling workers

A mother recycling worker walks through the streets at night with her baby daughter asleep on the cardboard she has collected for resale, 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.

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Recycling Phnom Penh, Cambodia
A mother recycling worker walks through the streets at night with her baby daughter asleep on the cardboard she has collected for resale, 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.
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