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China's garbage has dangerous allure for scavenging peasants

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , SHANGHAI

Under the circumstances, tempers sometimes flare. As crews of Kearsley-pratt's workers rushed to lay tarpaulins over a field of freshly laid garbage, a female scavenger in her 50s approached a group of foreigners taking pictures of the scene.

"We are just trying to make a livelihood, to eat," she shouted.

"Unless you have come to help us survive, we don't want your attention," she said.

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