Migrant Community Within China's Capital Makes Livelihood Recycling City's Scrap

BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 12: A Chinese laborer unloads plastic bottles to be recycled in the Dong Xiao Kou village on December 12, 2014 in Beijing, China. The village, is made up mostly of families of poor migrant workers that have come from surrounding provinces and are some of the tens of thousands of scrap peddlars surviving on recycling goods collected in China's capital. China is the world's biggest generator of solid waste and as the country's population and economy continue to grow the peddlars are integral to the waste and recycling management system in major cities. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)