Life in the Landfill

Rag pickers on a 100-foot-high mountain of trash Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times

As India throws more away (in New Delhi, 50% more now than five years ago), families of "rag pickers" make a kind of living by sorting through the trash and dreaming of making it to the middle class: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-trash-mountain-20120422,0,2692758.story