Hanumavva was all of 15 when she began picking rags from the back alleys of Mangaluru’s Kana neighbourhood. Now, she is 42. Over the years she saw the world around her change—its skyline taken over by gleaming towers built to house the city’s booming pharmaceutical and IT businesses and their executives.

There is so much more plastic now: discarded cans, phones, bags, food wrappers, takeaway containers, even the odd-remote control…

But nothing had changed in her life until the day she became part of Plastics for Change, a Bengaluru-based social enterprise that helps waste pickers like Hanumavva rebuild their lives.

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