88000 South Africans make ends meet from waste picking- The Star

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Name of article:88000 South Africans make ends meet from waste picking

Name of the journalist: Wiseman Khuawayo

Name of publication: The Star

Date: 25 July 2011

Country: South Africa

Theme: Sustaiable development and unemployment

Skills: Language, sources and use of data

Genre: News

GEM Classification: Gender aware

We avert our eyes when we see them going through our dustbins, we have dubbed them scavengers. We perceive them as dirty, poor, uneducated and dangerous individuals.
They themselves are very aware of the stigma attached to them, so much as that they they keep their work secret even from those close to them, whose bread they toil for.
Those who appreciate or respect their invaluable work call them waste pickers.
An estimate 88 000 South Africans currently live this way, according to Andrew Marthinusen, the executive director of the Packaging Council of South Africa.

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