Scavengers Assert Their Rights in Global Economy

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CANCUN, Mexico - Clambering over garbage heaps, rummaging through trash cans, 13-year-old Supriya Bhadakwad didn't set out to save the planet, just her family. But two decades later, in the global arena of climate negotiations, the little sari-clad Indian and other scavengers are making their voices heard, tilting with big corporate players in a tug-of-war over the world's dumpsites.

The Goliaths they're taking on are companies building incinerators worldwide to burn waste from landfills, material generations of "waste pickers" have survived on. Many of the projects are supported by private funds raised under the U.N. climate treaty.

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Scavengers Assert Their Rights in Global Economy

Bhadakwad had come 11,000 miles to the recent annual U.N. climate conference in Cancun on behalf of 6,000 organized landfill recycler...

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