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December 2006
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Written by Débora Rubin
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 06:13 |
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When he was unemployed, after years working as a welder, 49-year-old José Marcolino da Silva, from the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, first resisted the idea of becoming a recyclable garbage collector. He was not ashamed, disgusted or afraid of being run over. "I was afraid of scratching an expensive car and not being able to pay for it," he says.
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