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Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
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- (c) Sean Hawkey All Rights Reserved sean@hawkey.co.uk
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