Several thousand newly homeless and jobless Argentines found work as cartoneros, or cardboard collectors. The 2003 estimation of 30,000 to 40,000 people scavenged the streets for cardboard to eke out a living by selling it to recycling plants. This method accounts for only one of many ways of coping in a country that at the time suffered from an unemployment rate soaring at nearly 25%.Adjusting for the difference in size, this would lead to about 320,000 cartoneros here in the US. Just think of the beneficial impact this would have on the environment and Global Warming. Reduce, reuse, recycle!
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