Beer bottles, plastic trash, non recyclable waste, in Delhi

From the archive record

Rag pickers go through tonnes of trash bags piled up at the garbage collection site in Raj Nagar, South Delhi on an everyday basis. A trio of masked rag pickers are filmed going through trash bags looking for recyclable items which will be sold at recycling plants by weight. They are seen sitting in a pile of waste from homes and is not very conducive in the time of Corona Pandemic. Safety is out for a toss while these unpaid rag pickers pick go through toxic trash for livelihood and in turn help in keeping the city clean and even functioning of recycling plants. See the life of young kabariwallah or raddiwallahs in Covid India. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection compri