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From Steven Erlanger’s grim New York Times piece on young Palestinians picking through Israeli settler trash to survive:

The boys are part of a loose-knit colony of scavengers, nearly 250 people who scramble over fetid hills of other people’s trash to eke out a living for their families and themselves. Most are younger than 16; some sleep here during the week to maximize the hours they can hunt for goods to sell. Many are related, from a few large clans, and they have a kind of organization, with a 23-year-old bulldozer driver who settles disputes, and a code of conduct, so that every digger’s finds are respected.

Photo by Rina Castelnuovo via The New York Times

Tags: zero waste

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