Recycling Laos Style

This lady cycles around town collecting aluminium cans from rubbish bags to sell to a recycling business.

Men at Work Part 2

Yesterday I watched the builders- today the rubbish collectors - rather more aromatic. 

If you look closely you can see the recycling strategies: plastic bottles into the blue basket at the back, cardboard into the space between the cabin of the truck and the trailor.

Recycling Vietnamese Style

It would be a hard life living off the money from gathering plastic bottles in Hanoi. However the photo illustrates the cultural differences in approaches to recycling in developed countries to those in developing or economically emerging countries. NGOs working on environmental issues face such cultural challenges in their work to change approaches to plastic use and recycling.