The People of Waste Living Plastic (mini-doc on What happens to our garbage after it is dumped)

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Recycling is not a solution

What happens to our garbage after it is dumped? Through the example of Delhi, the film explores the transformation of a piece of plastic waste into a resource, through filmed interviews with diverse “people of waste” living in the shadow of consumer society. It aims at making visible the myriad of professions that specialize in the collection, sorting, reselling, cleaning, shredding and transformation of waste, from the stigmatized garbage picker at the bottom of the chain until the industrialist at the top of the pyramid who re-injects the recovered materials into the formal economy.

Produced by the French Research Institute for Development (IRD).

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CC BY 3.0, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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IRD Directed by Rémi de Bercegol, Grant Davis & Shankare Gowda

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