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    Beijing gets tough on trash

    Jul 05, 2018 4 minutes

    Liang Jiong spends most of his life rummaging through other people’s trash. He’s in search of anything that he can peddle to local middlemen, who sell it on to recycling plants: cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.

    “Time is money,” he shouted one recent morning as he raced from one trash can to another in his electric three-wheeled cart. Not much money: Mr. Liang says he earns just $450 a month – one-third of the average Beijing salary – by working 10 hours a day, seven days a week.

    But it is a regular income he can count on

    Going green by diktat?Making nice makes no differenceA waste of money?

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