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No proper protective gear, masks or gloves and possibly no pay or minimal pay these workers are forced to touch your garbage and trash for survival. Just look at the amount of trash generated and clearly, it has not been sorted. It will be a herculean task to sort the trash from this huge pile. Let us all think about this video next time we throw trash and garbage and think about the men behind the scene who are making sure the city is litter and stench free. Rag pickers and sanitation workers segregate waste from a pull cart and a SDMC garbage lorry in Delhi. The waste is sorted as recyclable and non recyclable waste. The Ragpickers pick plastic bottles, cardboard boxes and other items which can be used for recycling. The sanitation workers do not have proper gear to protect them from the
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