How connivance of government officials associated with KMC and DMCs have helped these mafia groups thrive in the noir business of garbage and recycle. In the absence of recycle policies.
In this episode of Karachi Garbage Story, ARY dives deep into the mafia whose enterprise is supported by people in the bureaucracy with access to power, let-outs and means to skirt legalities. In this grim exchange, it’s the minor ragpickers who become the cost.
Recap:
Seemingly in mid twenties, Jumma Khan doesn’t know his exact age because he has nothing to tell him that. With no birth certificate, identity card or any document for that matter, to prove his belonging to the place of his birth: Karachi, Khan is a ghost who wanders in the streets to make for his bare sustenance.
He stays out doing it for straight 12 hours, which is followed with another assorting exercise of the miscellaneous items landed in his sacks, in his own backyard, so he could sell them separately to the Kabar — knackers who buy recyclable goods and after sifting and packing them in volumes, send them to industries as production material.
Karachi Garbage Story: Ragpicker children at mercy of… everyone
At the end of each day, on average, he makes less than $10. That is despite the extreme and inhumane exhaustion. Hear from him in the first episode of Karachi Garbage Story series.
