The rag pickers have no way out of poverty since they have no chance to go to school and be educated.
THE LOST SPRING By ANEES JUNG
How can we help rag pickers? Do we stop and question where our waste goes and who collects and sorts it. Waste pickers work at the margins of our lives, removing things we don’t want to see.
Rag picking was considered an honest occupation, more on the level of street sweeper than of a beggar. An unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means Of Livelihood. Much of the hazardous waste is in the form of medicine bottles, insecticide spray bottles, toilet cleaners, and injections.
Rag pickers are doing this in a very unhygienic and hazardous condition. They are always prone to being infected by infectious diseases, cuts, injuries, toxic fumes and accidents etc. They don’t have enough education, training and support to do anything else.
