To Scrape By, The Poor In Spain Go Dumpster Diving
Construction workers in Hong Kong by JoopDorresteijn
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License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
One scene has become increasingly common amid Spain's economic crisis: Thousands of people, many of them immigrants, are searching trash dumpsters by night. Some scour the garbage for food, but many others are involved in a black-market trade for recycled materials. The scavengers have slowly become a sad fixture in many barrios across Spain, like the well-dressed, middle-aged man on a Barcelona street corner on a recent night. He averts his eyes from onlookers as he reaches his arm down deep into a dumpster. He's embarrassed, he says, that Spain's economy has left him searching through trash. He's afraid to give his name, but willing to tell his story: He's Pakistani, and came to Spain four years ago to work in construction — an industry that collapsed shortly after he arrived. Now, he's left scavenging. "Here, take a look at this," he says, describing what he's found.
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Mohammed al-Awami
Overall Sentiment: 0.0142962
Relevance: 0.532748
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| 0.28528 | "Let's say you're lucky, and you find a cafe that's having some construction work done," Al-Awami says. ... |
| 0.177368 | "Let's say you're lucky, and you find a cafe that's having some construction work done," Al-Awami says. "And they need a big sheet of metal to cover the countertop. They might pay 80 euro cents a kilo. And they might buy up to 500 kilos, or at least 200. That's a lot of money for you!" |
| 0.26487 | "Now it seems so much of humanity is without work or anything," Al-Awami says. ... |
| 0.0755126 | "Now it seems so much of humanity is without work or anything," Al-Awami says. "So this is better than robbery, you know? Collecting scrap metal. You can even jump down into the dumpster, no problem." |
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Fernando Fernandez
Overall Sentiment: 0.162962
Relevance: 0.309388
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| 0.15455 | "In any rich, developed economy there are pockets of need. It is probably true, too, that to some extent, this has increased," Fernandez says. ... |
| 0.127556 | "In any rich, developed economy there are pockets of need. It is probably true, too, that to some extent, this has increased," Fernandez says. "If anything, because the organizations caring for people in need are squeezed for resources." |
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Richard van der
Overall Sentiment: 0.0953094
Relevance: 0.242915
Iron
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.23388
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Country: Spain
Overall Sentiment: -0.194883
Relevance: 0.865599
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City: Barcelona
Overall Sentiment: 0.329676
Relevance: 0.331174
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