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Workers take a break from sorting through hundreds of sacks of plastic
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Mountain to Climb
Workers take a break from sorting through hundreds of sacks of plastic. In Dharavi nothing is considered garbage. Old plastic toys are tossed into massive grinders, chopped into tiny pieces, melted down into multicolored pellets, ready to be refashioned once again.

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