Collecting such plastic earns them waste pickers as little as 750 riel per kilo what is the equivalent to less than 20 US cents.
Nevertheless, washing and selling that itching plastic has emerged as one of the best selling products that is leaving the Dangkor Dumpsite.
Washing the plastic in this highly polluted lake is another threat to the health of the waste pickers as the water is doing serious damage to their skin.
