There’s an army of mainly old folk that wander this city and I know it’s the same all over China, collecting rubbish that can be recycled. I watch so many people throwing rubbish away and they don’t care where they drop it but these folk if they find it will collect it.

In the complex where I live I often see,at night, a woman in her 40’s with a child go through the bins and search for plastic or cardboard. But she has competition because sometimes there is an older woman but I don’t have any pictures because I don’t feel comfortable taking their picture.

What amazes me more of course is the way that they bundle all of this stuff and transport it to wherever they take it in the city, it’s great and so I have given you a few examples of the bin men and women in Suzhou………