In a dusty scrapyard encircled by mountains of scrap plastic, 11-year-old Yi-Jie dips her hairbrush in a tank of water clumpy with bits of polymer and runs it through her hair. Later she is seen with another woman, scooping plastic with their bare hands into an industrial shredder.
It was Wang Jiuliang’s gripping 2016 documentary, exposing the squalid, unsanitary conditions of substandard recycling yards oft manned by impoverished families, that caught the public and central government...
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