‘A Thousand Euros to Collect Cans’: the Garbage Business that Has Led to Chaos in Portugal and Will Arrive in Spain

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Fernando is 57 years old and has been living in the street for several years. Since last April he is known as one of the new 'miners of the garbage', because every morning he travels several kilometers of Lisbon opening containers and searching between the bags what for others no longer serves: plastic bottles and cans . Since April, each one of these containers has a deposit of ten cents , which is recovered by returning it to the machines inst…