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A traditional karang guni cart at a staircase landing. A karung guni, also spelled as karang guni, is a type of scrap dealer in Singapore and Malaysia. Its practitioners are a modern form of rag and bone man that visit residences door-to-door to acquire unwanted items. [1]
Karung guni, a counterpart similar to a rag-and-bone man in Singapore; Waste collector; Zabbaleen, a group of people in Egypt who operate in a similar manner; References
This series is about an American Born Chinese "brat" from Beverly Hills, California named Zhang Dong Jin, also known as Dong Jin or DJ (Eugene Lee), who is a rich, spoilt and almost-worthless Americanized Chinese that was sent or banished to Singapore by his father, Master Zhang, to live with a conservative Chinese family, the Gohs, so that DJ will learn about Chinese culture.
The karung guni, Zabbaleen, the rag and bone man, waste picker, junk man or bin hoker are terms for people who make their living by sorting and trading trash. A similar process known as gleaning was practised in rural areas and some ancient agricultural societies, where the residue from farmers' fields was collected.
Despite its notorious reputation, there were a few cases of honest and hardworking karung guni men who made good, and became millionaires. One was Poon Buck Seng who started his business with only a capital of S$ 50 by picking up junk, or paying small amounts for things people were throwing away in the 1980s.
In some countries, recycling is performed by the entrepreneurial poor such as the karung guni, zabbaleen, the rag-and-bone man, waste picker, and junk man. With the creation of large recycling organizations that may be profitable, either by law or economies of scale , [ 143 ] [ 144 ] the poor are more likely to be driven out of the recycling ...
Karung guni; Kerbside collection; Land recycling; List of composting systems; Material flow analysis; Materials recovery facility; Moisture recycling; PET bottle ...
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