Friday, 6 June 2008

Recycling industry puts kids at risk

Radio Australia

In Cambodia thousands of street children are being put at risk by the recycling industry, where authorities report a sharp rise in the number children who scavenge through rubbish piles on the street to find items they can sell to recycling organisations.

And the imminent closure of Phnom Penh's largest dump poses another problem for the thousands of scavengers who call the giant rubbish heap home.

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