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Dumpster diving in Spain

Lauren FrayerFebruary 24, 2013

In Spain, tough times are leading to increasingly disturbing scenes: Thousands of people, many of them immigrants, are searching rubbish dumpsters by night. Some scour the garbage for food, but many others are involved in a black-market trade for recycled materials. Lauren Frayer talks with some of these scavengers who've become a sad fixture in many neighborhoods across Spain.

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