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Phnom Penh's recycling workers

A small recycling warehouse on the edge of the city centre. Here the families of rrecycling workers bring what they have collected during the day, to sell him, Phnom Penh. Items are weighed and paid $1 per kilo for aluminum cans, 10 cents for Cardboard. He makes a margin of about 10% on the resale to larger distributors. 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 small recycling warehouse on the edge of the city centre. Here the families of rrecycling workers bring what they have collected during the day, to sell him, Phnom Penh. Items are weighed and paid $1 per kilo for aluminum cans, 10 cents for Cardboard. He makes a margin of about 10% on the resale to larger distributors. 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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