{"id":61401,"date":"2024-06-30T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=61401"},"modified":"2024-06-30T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:13:57","slug":"for-indias-garbage-pickers-a-miserable-and-dangerous-job-made-worse-by-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/30\/for-indias-garbage-pickers-a-miserable-and-dangerous-job-made-worse-by-extreme-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"For India&#8217;s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61402\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gabage-pickers-India-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gabage-pickers-India-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gabage-pickers-India-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gabage-pickers-India.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jammu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Jammu<\/a> in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/for-india-s-garbage-pickers-a-miserable-and-dangerous-job-made-worse-by-extreme-heat\/ar-BB1p8dbm?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=aee3bab565eb421ca7c51e4da6be19f9&amp;ei=33\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of\u00a0Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gabage-pickers-India.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61403,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61401\/revisions\/61403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}