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A waste picker also known as waste collector or garbage collector is a person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others to sell or for personal consumption. [1] There are millions of waste pickers worldwide, predominantly in developing countries , but increasingly in post-industrial countries as well.
scavenger, waste picker ꦥꦸꦭꦸꦁ (pulung) Pendopo ... Indonesian Meaning Tamil Word Tamil Transliteration Tamil Meaning Note acaram: 1. ring, 2. earnest money:
Waste collectors in Aix-en-Provence, France. A waste collector, also known as a garbage man, garbage collector, trashman (in the U.S), binman or dustman (in the UK), is a person employed by a public or private enterprise to collect and dispose of municipal solid waste (refuse) and recyclables from residential, commercial, industrial or other collection sites for further processing and waste ...
A waste collection barge in Venice, Italy. Manual waste collection in Bukit Batok West, Singapore. Waste on a sidewalk for collection, bagged and stickered - in Dublin, Ireland. Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill.
Household waste was often simply thrown out of an open window, buried in the garden or deposited in outhouses (see more at urban archaeology). When human concentrations became more dense, waste collectors, called nightmen or gong farmers were hired to collect the night soil from pail closets, performing their duties only at night (hence the ...
Waste pickers at a landfill in Jakarta, Indonesia. The ragpicker's trade was known in Europe, particularly in France and Italy, until the 1960s. [2] There are municipalities, for example Gambettola in northern Italy, where the inhabitants have made a fortune from the recovery of old things and perpetuate this ancient profession by recovering metals for the steel industry.
The organization provides street cleaning services through about 17,000 street chapters, 40% of Chennai city and 75% of the suburbs, and some other parts of Tamil Nadu.The street cleaning service includes a collection of garbage at homes, sorting at pickup, composting organic waste, and generating income for the "street beautifiers" through the sale of recyclables.
Tamil Lexicon (Tamil: தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதி Tamiḻ Pērakarāti) is a twelve-volume dictionary of the Tamil language. Published by the University of Madras , it is said to be the most comprehensive dictionary of the Tamil language to date.