HONG KONG: Her fingers are bent from 20 years of collecting cardboard from Hong Kong’s streets, but Au Fung-lan has no desire to give up the gruelling work.
At 67, she is one of around 2,900 collectors – mainly women over the age of 60 – whose frail figures are a familiar sight, guiding trolleys loaded with cardboard through a city clogged with traffic and people.
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