This is kenyas biggest trash dump. Hes just a few kilometers away from nairobis commercial district every day hundreds of trucks are running with garbage from the citys not fluent districts and its hotels and restaurants. I mean i sort the trash because im trying to earn a little money and. Im no longer alone because i have a wife and child mouth and i have four legs and theyre waiting for me to come back with milk or bread in the evening. It was happening i knew nothing that theyll complain if i come home empty handed have the yeah yeah. Theres a few guns with you i collect food and put it aside to feed my pigs they have to eat too. Sometimes i might be lucky and find so. Packed meat and chips here. And that would be lunch for today just like that. Some might think this is not a good job and if they see me looking as dirty as i am now they might look down on me but i know what im getting out of it. Is not what i think without looking and you can find food but theres meat. You see these people around here but you can move in if you know they depend on i mean one up on me to get me to do we do. Them mainly here because of meat maybe they live somewhere nearby and they havent had anything to eat yet today on the. Line. Every day hundreds of people from the nearby slums come here in the hope of Scavenging Food or anything else that might come in and. One of them is one but we get dont go my mom. Was working here. Where. She
have high income and because she didnt have a lot of money and young men maybe. I was coming here to work i didnt have my data. So i done before the place i cant play money. Back i have my own. No three i want to be in my paycheck. First was seen as something that was necessary for growth to happen was something that was necessary for israel productivity. Would be no clinic to be. Then we started to realize that ok too much good he may be a local problem. And brooklyn new york. B. R. Simmons is on his way to work. People look at you and. They think what they were thinking oh look at that person that people of that garbage and things like that you cant let that stop you. If you have bread to pay and you worry about that youll do it as a good thing. As a go walk outside one day when around the corner and i saw the recycle bags full of bottles and cans and as you know something. I see in all that money thats what it thats what it translates to money. You get up at four oclock in the morning go out the histories were four oclock the world is yours you hit bills keep places with a big enough Shopping Cart but eight oclock the Shopping Cart is blooming. What i like about it is right in the panda feed. I go out on
a Seventy Five Dollars steak a painless office. My mother took me to know they do not depend on people you must get your own. And my goal was to just get Breakfast Lunch or whatever yes it. Appears simmons never had much growing up to sixty five Year Old Girl many different jobs then he became unemployed. For me to be happy i need peace with god. People who look down on can as i think a lot of them have a Surprise Waiting for them down that. They need not be judgment to about the people because they themselves are paycheck away from home. Actually inequality was felt from peoples life chances from the starting point and often from just luck or an unlucky turn and inequality actually really damages society. No longer able to pay the rent simmons ended up on the street for months. Being homeless the ships are psychology this is being received a psychology only one extreme of the poor extreme it could drive you mad. A lot of people dont want to go to the shelters defrayed a great killed a deafening all be wrong. When i was homeless i rode ferry back and forth all night what was this stuff someone tell you cant stay on you gotta get off the boat for the next room so imagine you trying to sleep. Or. You sleep on the
manhattan side so in the morning when you wake in a new york city is walking all over going to work people looking down at you is still thought this guy has a key he can hes going to sell something on the bed watch t. V. You dont know how those simple things you miss the today gone. The. Garbage dumps can provide a lifeline for people like god where no cheating. Its dirty work but theres very little other work here. Then use economy is booming but most of the wealth ends up with the countrys tiny upper class. Jennifer yeah. Its unfair when some people are so rich before me when families own land and farms and others are living in slums and have to sleep rough into another lane there are some people who are. I sleep on the down side because they dont have homes. In my opinion on
iraqi people who have money should open Something Like a Resource Center which can help lift up those who are below them or help the young kids who are facing a tough life which is looking at least that would help reduce poverty in their small needs to get a book and was oh my skinny little bit. Actually what really matters to lift people out of poverty is investments in education in Health Infrastructure whether or not the governments doing these investments its really important for a society to try to enable children from low income families to have the opportunity to get the kind of education that gives them a chance but also not to leave people falling vulnerably into poverty. The social inequality here is striking most kenyans have Neither Health insurance nor state pensions. Forty percent of the population lives on less than two u. S. Dollars a day at the same time there are more than Nine ThousandDollar Millionaires and. Billion glued some of the countrys leading politicians. Every afternoon or cheering sifts through his daily pickings separating food from plastic and metal. Is it in the movie. You see these containers and i arrange them on paper on the floor and i employ a guy who comes in on sundays and week days to wash clean and dried my make up with santa monica when they look clean and shiny so people buy them like. It when i got my easy. If i sell these containers today then i might get about Three Hundred to four hundred shillings on me thats enough to feed my family for today and even tomorrow afternoon before i get back home after work and turn on. Not going
anywhere. His income of three or four dollars a day the lip synching over the International Poverty line set by The World Bank at one dollar and ninety cents. To the United States is not just one of the richest countries in the world its also home to some of the most glaring inequality as the rich rapidly get richer the poor continue to get poorer. Over you know a period thirty eight years now it was massive growth in this country but the bottom fifty percent of americans they did not benefit from that with. The u. S. Is now home to almost Six Hundred Billion Dollars at the same time about Forty Million americans live in poverty. In twenty four jeanPierre Simmons gave a speech about poverty today United Nations on behalf of sure we can knaan Profit Recycling Center in new york well sure we can is a very unique place when i first came here i was struck here is
a place that opened up the gates i see a community of people theyre all working cutting boxes and i looked around and i seen people bringing out fresh home cooked food take trays of it and i said to myself what is this they showed me what to do i thought you just put twenty four bottles in a box no they said you want more money sort them. He began explaining to me who was who that sister is running this place and write the name as well this is such a god. So youre to be in the five senses and you recall that also the dignity and by your each human being each of us can do a lot given the chance i dont think anybody here we can wants to live like Wall Street People we have reached some way and i think when the person is half the
ability to participate in Decision Making in managing their own life that this will be the end because. I i. I resilience strength and conviction doesnt depend upon money it depends upon the spirit and i feel from community so there is amazing transformative power lying in many of the worlds poorest communities. Thousands of traders are set up shop near nairobis going door and landfill they buy and sell their goods to the Garbage Pickers break from the dump its a bustling economy but with very little profit margins. They may both are millions of poor people but theres a huge wealth gap between kenya and the United States takes the average kenyan
twenty years during the equivalent of the average annual income in the us people like me would need the better part of a lifetime the world is more unequal than any one nation within it its extreme levels of inequality between the poorest nations and the richest and in fact when you look at wealth the cumulation of wealth is rising to a fraction of a global one percent at an extraordinary rate. New york is not just one of the cities with the most billionaires. Its also one of the most wasteful urban centers on earth more trash is produced per capita here than in most other cities. But many of the objects dont belong in the garbage in the first place yes as retired sanitation worker Nelson Molina can testify if for thirty two years he salvaged treasures from the trash you know to fill a small museum. And you just did you set this all up i set all this up my debts
thats each it yand itself forty seven years old its said in movie project is oh come on super eight the silver age and i said yes in the original sonny they say we. Got feedback. Thats it wow this is flight hell cost throughout everything assistance just and if you give me a three months i can furnish a two bedroom apartment and im talking my living room bedroom bathroom everything is all out there when i was a kid my mother always told us if you can use it again you say that. Trying to she is part of a professional discipline for anthropologist robin nagel. She also worked as a Garbage Collector which made her see trash with different dryers. You could almost say trash doesnt exist we could decide its not trash its simply
something in between my use and its next use the cultural forces in which many of us exist today tell us to hurry and go faster and do more and never slow down and as long as we keep moving fast were going to generate lots and lots of trash. Food waste as a subcategory of garbage is its own challenge because proximately a quarter of all food in grown produced in the United States never even reaches the table it goes straight into the garbage how that addresses problems of inequality its getting worse the disparity between the wealthy and people who dont have enough resources to feed their kids across a week right the gap is getting bigger and bigger. And wealthy people not only produce more waste than poor people but also use more of the planets resources and cause more environmental damage ecological footprint of industrialized countries is much bigger than that in the developing world i think there are two sides to human
prosperity that so simple i have them in my pocket from the one side a b Everybody Needs to use Water HousingEducation Health care the basic subsistence of life that each person has a claim to we know these as human rights but at the same time this little blue marble our planetary home we need a stable climate fertile soils healthy oceans a protective ozone layer so we need to and depravation extremes of inequality while creating a Sustainable Future they go together so beautifully. As per capita kenyans produce just two percent of the c o two generated by americans and use only one hundredth of the electricity. But consumption is growing in kenya to fueled by the man from the rich. On my t. V. My mom watches these t. V. s and watches are a luxury. But when you have the money you can buy them and feel like everyone else. Is. Really not a job i feel relaxed being here in the skin mary marks. But since i walked in i have this feeling of like i am in a place of a different class around. I feel in a place where im not supposed to be. And look at the miley but i also deserve to be here. In the news in the i mean a funny. Lately ive noticed more Shopping Malls being built in schools in childrens homes in the way i see it they are investing more in malls but in homes hospitals and schools. Inequality actually disrupt an economy. An economy that is too unequal is an economy that is not going to do the proper investments in order to for this economy to flourish in the future
of your technician ok new york based artist Saul Vilinsky has also figured out how to make money out of trash he creates art works using discarded everyday objects like the cans collected by Pierre Simmons this is trash that the rich are willing to invest in one of vilinsky is works adorns of Friends Luxury apartment so this is it in the sense for thirty two park avenue. Wow. To have to hire. You got a picture. Apartments in the manhattan skyscraper sell for between seventeen and ninety five Million Dollars coming with your cans. All wow ok. What this wanted was has been transformed into what we see now. But its still a memory of what it was. Ok. Do you feel any. Bitterness about the fact that you know the residents of this apartment are able to spend you know Tens Of Thousands of dollars on artwork. I dont want to judge them. I dont want to judge them i dont need me that might cross my mind. But its not been that im concerned about im glad that they like it and they love your work that theyre willing to pay you for and i think you deserve it because that is your soul a genius you know but. I dont concentrate on this. I told him then and him and all the people i dont want to be rich i would love to have the money and the resources of the ridge and then x. Me what i said because then i can do things that need to be done in Education Health care. Housing decent housing Mental Healthservices Mental Health we need we need people i believe america right now is associate Pathic Society is no love theres no compassion people dont want to hear it. And i think is so soon as you patrick that maybe its only to Privilege Ones who could have sensitivity they can look at that and enjoy it i mean treme its a moment amused by this that our work originates in the gutter and here it is you know in the tallest residential building in the world you know at one of the posses the dresses new york city you know but it comes directly from the gutters of queens and brooklyn you know you look at this something kind of you know this lovely beautiful about the ignored and beautiful. I mean who. The ten square meter room that godwin wrote yang shares with his wife lorna and
their daughter iliana costs about Thirty Five Dollars a month out seeing lives in constant fear of being unable to pay the rent he cant imagine trash as a Laundry Object he uses it to feed his family and furnish is home. Its hard all these years weve grown up with hardship. I grew up like you and i would like to get away from march again and have a good life and i dont think those in power will help us that when they only think of their own. Ok like eric once they have filled their own pockets the rest of us who are poor will just have to struggle through and if you dont struggle you know where you will stay poor and always. Who were there are those who have money and those who dont so if you dont have much and you compare yourself with those you do you will get tired so if you dont have much you know it is
better not to stress yourself one day you will make it. The Rich Dont Care about inequality that there is different to any quality and america is growing so far. Its so for at one time one person or for one salary was able to support the whole family its gone. Its gone disparity between rich and poor theyll try and make you think it doesnt exist when you just do bring these things up the first thing that theyll say is oh
youre talking about class warfare yes im talking about class warfare yes im the one who goes into the refrigerated is not the. On that one next to. The serious Stock Exchange is wall street these people on a mission they want more money they want more control theres going to have to be either a great rebellion or great revolution i dont care what is is is that you boycott it you stop watching t. V. Stop stop look at the advertisements stop buying stuff. People in america work to buys stuff. Cell phone plants stream t. V. The computers as soon as you take them out of the box. They are obsolete what kind of madness is that. The pork is just what it is just down to the very core even if one day. Everybody get together middle class poor were not going to work simple is that it would stand by bridges to want to sole control. You could see threatens the wealth of the good function of the current it also threatens the health of the society it also threatens the quality of the Democratic Institutions and of democratic debate you know wealth is not just