Scrap for recycling is Kosovo’s number one export. It is a 40-million-euro industry built on the backs of exploited minorities and children.
Twelve-year-old Resmije is too short to reach into the skip, so she climbs over the side and jumps right in.
Tearing open bags of household waste and rotting food, she plucks out anything of value: plastic bottles, soft drink cans, electric cables. It all goes into a wooden cart pushed by her uncle.
See at: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/02/11/scavenger-hunters-kosovos-exploited-scrap-collectors/
