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Wasted potential
Mother Jones, July-August, 2008 by Kamal Kishore
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The waste-pickers of Delhi, India, forage through garbage for anything that can be recycled into cash. A new incinerator that turns trash into electricity will change all that. Because it will reduce the amount of methane off-gassed by landfills, it will generate carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol. But the incinerator will also emit dioxins, mercury, heavy metals, and fly ash--and put thousands of impoverished waste-pickers out of business. Read more at motherjones.com/woste-piekers.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAMAL KISHORE
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