Meet the city’s unsung heroes of green living – the garbage-pickers who take our cast-offs, junk and empty bottles…

She lay on the sidewalk for a week or more, waiting, as her companions were picked up and whisked away – boxes of plastic hangers, china plates, glassware, lamp shades, a desk, a dresser, a wooden fragment of undetermined purpose, puzzled over briefly by a postal worker, but claimed nonetheless.

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