In India, the kabariwala is a recycler who actually pays you for your junk, in Delhi

From the archive record

A Kabariwala rides his bicycle and goes around a colony in New Delhi, hoping to get recycling business. He keeps calling out to his potential clients - households in the neighbourhood. He lucks out at one particular home and managed to strike a deal for a batch of old furniture and woodwork. He gathers together the old broken sofas and tables after striking a monetary deal for the lot. He then rides back to the locality to collect more junk shouting his trademark "kabari" call. When you don't know what to do with your old household junk, the kabariwala comes to the rescue. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high q