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Cost of living: An Indian waste-picking couple struggle with debt

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Sifting through waste to find and sell scraps of cloth and recyclables use to be enough for Gunja and Chand to support their family. Now they're earning less because of a series of lockdowns and the Russia-Ukraine war.

Written by Suparna Sharma.

Read by Laura Lockwood.

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