'Canners' sorting cans and bottles at non-profit recycling centre 'Sure We Can' in Brooklyn. Photo: Ed Jones/AFP
On a Brooklyn street in New York, the United States, Laurentino Marin didn't stop to admire the recent Halloween decorations. Like every morning, the Mexican is busy filling a shopping cart with used cans and plastic bottles, which he will exchange for a few dollars.
Marin, who is 80, is one of New York's estimated 10,000 "canners", mostly older migrants from Latin America and China who scrape a living sorting and recycling plastics and aluminium.
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