Ragpicker

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A The Goods-Charger , or Chiffonnier , is a term for someone who makes a living by searching for garbage on the streets to collect rescue materials. Pieces of cloth and paper can be converted into cardboard, broken glass can be melted and reused, and even dead cats and dogs can be skinned to make clothes.

Scavengers in the 19th and early 20th centuries did not recycle the materials themselves; they will simply collect whatever they can find and hand it over to a "big scavenger" (usually a scavenger) who, in turn, will sell it - generally by weight - to wealthy investors with the means to turn material into something more profitable.

Although it is simply the job for the lowest working class, sampling is considered to be an honest job, more at the street sweeper level than beggars. In Paris, for example, the rag-gatherer is governed by law: their operations are limited to certain times of the night, and they are required to return valuable possessions to the owner or to the authorities. When Eugène Poubelle introduced the trash can in 1884, he was criticized in the French newspaper for interfering with the livelihood of scavengers. Modern sanitation and recycling programs eventually cause the profession to decline, although not entirely lost; rag and bone men are not uncommon in the UK today.

Ripping cloth is still widespread in the Third World countries today, such as in Mumbai, India, where it offers the poorest communities around the rubbish areas and recycling the opportunity to get money from hand to mouth. In 2015, India's Ministry of Environment announced a national award to recognize the services provided by scavengers. Award, with cash prize Rs. 1.5 lakh, is for the three best scavengers and three associations involved in best practice innovation.

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Relationships in waste management and recycling

Ragpicking has a positive impact on urban spaces with weak waste management infrastructure. In India, ragpicking economic activity is worth about INR3200 crore. India is also found to have a nearly 90% recycling rate for PET bottles, which may be linked to ragpicking, given the lack of solid waste management and waste collection and recycling culture in the country.

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Legacy

Charles Baudelaire's (1888) included a poem in which scavenger characters played an important role, titled "Le Vin de chiffonniers" ("The Rag-Picker's Wine").

Francis Saltus Saltus' Shadow and Ideal (1890) included a poem about scavengers entitled "The Old Rag-picker of Paris".

Part of a tenement building near Chatham Square, Manhattan is known as the Rag-Picker Court, as this is the profession of most of its inhabitants. In 1879, William Allen Rogers drew a cloth-filled page for Harper's Weekly as part of a series of carvings that focused on city life.

In the 1862 novel Les MisÃÆ' Â © rables , the Vargouleme character is a picker-picker. He considers himself lucky because, unlike many people on the streets of Paris, he has a profession.

"Original Rags" is an 1899 music medley for piano, an early example of the Ragtime genre, which makes references to select fabrics, as well as puns

"Rag and Bone" is a song by American garage rock band The White Stripes, which tells from the point of view of two fabric and bone collectors.

The Ragpicker's Dream is a song and album by songwriter/guitarist Mark Knopfler released in 2002.

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