"""Rag pickers"" wait as a truck delivers garbage at the 70-acre Ghazipur Landfill site. They will sort through it picking out recyclable materials to sell. Delhi is estimated to have between 80,000 and 100,000 rag pickers who remove around 1,200-1,500 tons of trash from the municipal disposal chain each day. These activities, carried out in an ad-hoc way have unfavourable environmental, occupational health and community health implications."
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