I live in a nice quiet urban neighborhood. Today is the day that the city
picks our garbage up. Recently, a few people have started coming by to sort
through our recycling bins. Some are on bikes, some pull wagons and some just
walk carrying bags. They don't look as though they're from our neighborhood.
Today, the last person to come by was an elderly woman who went through the
already picked-over bins very carefully.
If these people find anything of value, they don't get very much for it -- a
few cents for wine or beer bottles etc. But what they are doing suggests a
sense of desperation. It would seem that whatever little they get is very
important to them.
Ed
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