| In recent months, ragpickers in Delhi have been denied access to much of the rubbish upon which they depend. |
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| For example, ragpickers traditionally recover solid waste from the landfills of San Pedro in Colombia. |
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| Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders. |
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| The government also announced plans to integrate the ragpickers into the formal waste system, by giving out protective clothing and training. |
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| The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump. |
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| Day dawned on the avenue while the ragpickers assigned to this section of road were skillfully rummaging through the last trashcans with their hooks. |
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| Italian women and children did piecework at home or were ragpickers who scavenged through garbage in search of bones, tin cans, or any usable piece of cloth, which they could launder and sell. |
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| It was not until the introduction of wood pulp in 1843 that paper production was not dependent on recycled materials from ragpickers. |
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| A research project he was running to measure methane emissions from the Okhla dump became a battle with ragpickers who stole the plastic pipes he sank into it. |
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| Chintan has researched the impact in two zones, and has found that half the ragpickers reported a substantial drop in earnings. In Mumbai, waste collection has not yet been privatised, but it might be soon. |
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| Yet the roughly 6,000 tonnes of rubbish produced each day by a swelling Mumbai continues to sustain an estimated 30,000 ragpickers, including many residents of Dharavi. |
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| It could add Hindu tradition and an inexhaustible supply of destitute ragpickers, 100,000 in Delhi alone. Some fast-growing cities have attempted to clean up the mess. |
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