The New York 'canners' recycling discarded bottles to survive

by The Manila Times

Oct 31, 2021 10:52 am

New York, Oct 31, 2021 (AFP) -On a Brooklyn street, Laurentino Marin doesn't stop to admire the Halloween decorations. Like every morning, the Mexican is busy filling a shopping cart with used cans and plastic bottles, which he will exchange for a few dollars.

Marin, who is 80, is one of New York's estimated 10,000 'canners,' mostly older migrants from Latin America and China who scrape a living sorting and recycling plastics and aluminum.

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