Down in the dumps - Covid-19 has posed new challenges to the world's waste-pickers | International
WhatsApp , our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub A T THE NORTHERN edge of Lusaka, in Zambia, the 24-hectare Chunga landfill smoulders in the midday sun, its sour smoke scalding the nose and throat. Wesley Kambizi works nine-hour days on the dump with just a beanie and mismatched sneakers for protection: one slip-on, one lace-up, both caked in mud. Local authorities intermittently threaten to bar waste-pickers like him from the site. Worsening poverty in the city means both that more people are scavenging at the landfill and that fewer valuable scraps mak...
Source: economist.com