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'The Recyclers of Port-au-Prince'

The Recyclers of Port-au-Prince. January 2015. In a 200-acre-plus dump 5 kilometers north of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hundreds of men, women and children scavenge day and night through the burning wasteland. They earn $12 to $15 a day — on a good day — for recycling plastics as well as clothing, household items and aluminum (for smelting). Some 5,000 tons of waste is created each day in the Port-au-Prince area. It is here that the majority of the rubble from the January 2010 earthquake was dumped. The quake killed more than 230,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince.

'The Recyclers of Port-au-Prince'

The Recyclers of Port-au-Prince. January 2015. In a 200-acre-plus dump 5 kilometers north of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hundreds of men, women and children scavenge day and night through the burning wasteland. They earn $12 to $15 a day — on a good day — for recycling plastics as well as clothing, household items and aluminum (for smelting). Some 5,000 tons of waste is created each day in the Port-au-Prince area. It is here that the majority of the rubble from the January 2010 earthquake was dumped. The quake killed more than 230,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince.