Visitors to India immediately notice the waste piled in the streets. Poor families earn a few pennies by combing the city for bits of plastic, cardboard, and glass which they sell to recyclers. Every day we see women and children walking in the streets, back alleys, and garbage dumps of the city filling their large white collection bags with anything of value. Street sweepers are one of the lowest classes of society, usually illiterate and avoiding eye contact. The garbage heaps throughout the city are popular with pigs, cows, dogs, and rats.
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