{"id":238023,"date":"2021-04-15T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238023"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:58:50","slug":"a-glance-at-garbage-collecting-tragedy-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/a-glance-at-garbage-collecting-tragedy-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glance At Garbage Collecting Tragedy in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Simultaneous with the economic crisis in Iran due to the regime\u2019s corruption and malign policies, social disasters continue to grow. One of them is the rising number of labor children and garbage collectors. Iranian people live in misery while the regime spends billions of dollars on its nuclear and missile programs.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of Tehran\u2019s City Council, spoke of the \u201cgarbage mafia\u201d using deprived labor children, workers, and foreign nationals. According to Hashemi, there are at least 14,000 garbage collectors in Tehran alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe garbage mafia, by using working children and foreign nationals, homeless individuals, and deprived workers, has caused social harm. This is in addition to creating environmental issues and threatening the health of society. The second obstacle is the daily life of urban management and lack of courage to make a fundamental change in the municipal waste system,\u201d Hashemi said.<\/p>\n

According to a study in 2018, the number of garbage collectors<\/a> in Tehran is 14,000, out of which 4700 are children. Forty percent of these children have no educations, 37% have dropped out of school due to poverty, and 59% of them are accompanied during garbage collecting. 69% of these children scavenge and collect garbage without gloves and work for at least 10 hours per day.<\/p>\n

\u201cDry waste turnover in Tehran is about three thousand billion Tomans per year, 70% of which is the share of informal garbage collection. In recent years, many contractors have earned so much money in contracts with municipalities to take responsibility for collecting and sorting dry waste. They have now become very rich,\u201d wrote the state-run Shar news agency in September 2020.<\/p>\n

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Poverty in Tehran's District 4<\/div><\/div>
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