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A family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer. A woman works sorting while her daughter wades through a sea of plastic under the Buriganga Bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They are part of informal plastic waste industry and set up their operation working long hours to eke out of living looking for recyclable materials. It may appear a chaotic, tangled heap but the workers make order finding like colors and types in the waste that is in the shadows of Burigonga Bridge Road that goes over a backwater to the Buriganga River.

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Plastic or Planet? National Geographic magazine 3/2018
A family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer. A woman works sorting while her daughter wades through a sea of plastic under the Buriganga Bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They are part of informal plastic waste industry and set up their operation working long hours to eke out of living looking for recyclable materials. It may appear a chaotic, tangled heap but the workers make order finding like colors and types in the waste that is in the shadows of Burigonga Bridge Road that goes over a backwater to the Buriganga River.