Johannesburg Trolley Life, hundreds of unemployed males and females in the central business district of Johannesburg rely on collecting waste material to make it through the day.
A man in his late 60s pulls a trolley filled with can material as he enters "Crazy Scrap Yard". The owner of the junkyard said she's going out of business following the impact of covid and the government's proposal to impose a ban on copper and metal trading due to the high stealing and vandalising of public infrastructure in South Africa.
Junk yard collectors are seen here inside "crazy scrap" yard to trade in their recycl
The four trolleys parked on the side of the road belong to four unemployed men who collect boxes, cans, metal and plastic. One full bag of plastic can cost R150 - 200, equivalent to $11,69.
The streets of Johannesburg in South Africa are flooded by unemployed and homeless individuals who strive in collecting waste material and have becam
