Who Owns Garbage?

Citizen Shift via Dialogic:

The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina is the battle ground in a fight over     garbage. The Cartoneros are recyclers; they operate in cooperatives,     collecting and recycling the city’s waste for money. Cartoneros     cooperatives like Nuevos Rumbos have been operating for decades. But since     Argentina’s latest economic collapse, the cartoneros find themselves     engaged in a fight with some of the city’s richest and most powerful     people -- a fight over "ownership" of garbage and the right to make a     living from recycling.

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