Social divisions are growing sharper in India. That country's middle class is becoming more affluent, and that means it's throwing away more stuff. Some of that trash has value, which has created ...

MANILA (Reuters Life!) - Filipino rag pickers are turning trash into high fashion after joining forces with a designer to produce upmarket bags and rugs from scraps of cloth collected at a garbage ...

For hundreds of years, Paris’ chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags ...