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| Finding fortune in the trash |
Thus activities of citizens who scavenge garbage looking for fortune in the vicinity Final Disposal (TPA) at Village West Island District State District Pemulutan Ogan Ilir (OI). Results are didapatpun not so great to meet the needs of their health compared with the threat. According to Abdullah (40) State of the Island Village residents, nearly every day he was on the mound of trash to find discarded materials can be resold. As for used goods is a used plastic beverage bottles, old sacks and other items that can still be sold.
Whereas the price ranged from Rp250 to Rp1.500 depending on the type of goods, such as plastic 1.500/kg valued, appreciated Rp150 sacks apiece, for 500 types of bottled bottle-perbotol.
"As a result, it suffices for the meal, about Rp30000 per day, but sometimes just get tired."
today, the little scavengers, because many people start working on their fields, because if a typical day here until the scavengers who crowded close to 40 people. Because this is what can we do, in addition to farming, looking for fish and scavenging is what can we do for meeting their daily needs. If the recipient of the goods already existing problem where recipients so that they do not hard sell, sometimes they come to the site to buy our goods, and if the little things we had to deliver at home.
We also used to work almost every day because no cars are entered in the location of garbage disposal is. The number of cars that go every day about six units of the City Sanitation Department (INR) of Ogan Ilir regency government.
"In addition, we expect poor people to the district OI, in order to provide jobs for us so that we no longer work as scavengers, in addition to small results also not good for our health, hope Abdullah as he ended the conversation