Where food waste is synonymous with survival The waste processing plant of Ceamse, San Martín, hundreds of young surgeons for an hour every day digging industrial waste dairy factories, refrigerators and supermarkets. Many of them come from the villa "La Cárcova" by José León Suárez, where two children were shot dead after a train derailment.
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YOUTH AND CHILDREN AHEAD OF SAN MARTIN, AT 17.30, WHICH WAY TO OPEN THE BARS
José León Suárez is the parquetemático of poverty, says Lalo. "We live on waste landfills, we are very burned and even trains derailed. Just need to nail the sign on the highway, Welcome to Quemaikén. "
What counts here is just one visit to cirujeo which employs thousands of residents of San Martín five days a week at the processing plant Ceamse. Is passing a post-apocalyptic scene in industrial times and in one of the world's richest plains. Ernesto
Cárcova, the artist who painted without bread without work, one of the iconic pictures of the museum Argentine name of this village, whose inhabitants call Carcova without tilde and grave accent. Is a town like any other, or bigger or more violent, stable population is concentrated in a few blocks the breakdown of a community. Two children, Gabriel Ramos and Franco Almiron-were killed by the Buenos Aires police last week after the supposed wreck and plunder of a freighter, in what looks like an episode of "trigger happy". The expertise of the Gendarmerie have been inconclusive about the train incident. Although the bulk of its population from Argentina cirujeo lives of the majority does not rise the few trucks leaving mid-afternoon to the downtown but in the Ceamse cartonea, a few miles. At 16.30, dozens of young people prepare their bikes and cars to cross the town. Must cross the tracks and head for the motorway del Buen Ayre, to the curve that goes into the field to the mountain of garbage discharged by trucks all day.
Indeed, Ceamse plant was no longer a burning for decades, but everyone still called that. Technically, the North Landfill II concentrates 86 percent of the final disposal of waste from the capital, the suburbs and the first belt, a total of 34 municipalities. A priori, this huge dump cirujeo sounds like the last step of human labor, and it'll turn his pawns in a pack with the carcass, they also posthuman. However, looked cold-breathing through the mouth, no more succulent pot or offers what in fact is the complete whole of consumer goods, broken, decayed, degraded but in all his diversity, lots offered a grotesque harvest. Nor is there a source of business so close in the municipality of San Martín.
offers a cornucopia of capitalism in the key of absurdity.
The landscape is demeaning and yet, Baroque. The terrain is multicolored packages climb all the materials and even has a river the Reconquista, with its own fauna of frogs, for spills, no one would eat. It is assumed that the strength of the villa Carcova is recycling of nylon, PET polymer. Plastic containers are collected, sold to collectors and compacted into large cubes that are exported to China and Brazil, which are reprocessed in fleece. Ceamse addition, there are the same party burning clandestine PET at much lower cost. In his recent book Who Killed Diego Duarte?, Which investigates the death of a young cartonero under an avalanche of garbage in March 2004 and whose body was never found (the scene recalls the tragic end of Gomorrah film based on Roberto Saviano's book about trash mafia), Alicia Dujovne Ortiz paints those other open burning. In addition to nylon, many cardboard paper.
But what horrifies and finally to rethink it's own life-the coordinates of perdedero bottomless resources, the waste as the real obscenity is the cirujeo food waste, which have left the morning trading system to re-enter another parallel circuit that afternoon. No food is always defeated but discarded by industrial reasons, the most common, have broken the cold chain. Nougués Ambrosio, director of the Food Bank Foundation, notes that our maturity refers to other "sensory properties," as their peak of flavor and color, which does not mean they are not edible. In many countries like the U.S.., Legend says their date of preferable. In practice, this would put back into circulation and massive donations suitable for very high amounts of foods today are discarded too easily. A project, Donal law, kept for months, attempting to regulate this kind of direct donations to humanitarian organizations. In practice, the entire population in the Ceamse cirujeo from the 80, but with a big bang from the 2001 crisis has been fueled by what their parents rescued here.
Lalo Paret, third generation of rag pickers, referring to the International Foundation Base and an activist in favor of recycling that waste is fed from the seven years. "I remember one time I lived for two months on the basis of tripe," he says. "Here the neighbors know that if you raise chickens in the burning should let boil two hours.
my grandfather said that fire kills everything. "In the corner of Carcova where they stop the friends of the dead children near the fields where it still dominates the grief of families, none of us want to follow, or crazy venture with entire area under the gaze of the Gendarmerie. A young and very beautiful "picture" rants against the corporate media and is an eco-globalization movement of the 90, crossed by the discussions at the Media Law. You need to walk to the end of Central Avenue in the town and take a march of 40 minutes, until the cutoff where a country road opens Ceamse to loot, to the extent where every day the manna dripping poison of all supermarkets, dairy factories, refineries and refrigerators. And what's next is the last price, deployment of these other commodities that rancid and losers, bad packaged or unpresentable, plants and gondolas spit in the ravine, so far from the starving children of Salta. The burning of the border Ceamse of all products that accompany us daily, where ordered by the industry is confused in a field of unlabeled material and all overlaps, and that's part of the scandal and the pigpen, "the hash of snuff with bidoncitos yogurt, minced meat and chicken along with our voracious balanced golden retrievers, while the arm is blind groping, just in case your fingers touch a DVD.
First you get to the police catch the Ceamse and the great gate, across a bridge where the authorities expect that hour. The vast majority of pickers are under 25 years, many of them children with older siblings and number of girls. Few adults support the effort athletic first reach the mountain. Walter, a man grown, says he has seen many broken, because more young people, the greater the pressure from the start. Around 17.30 the gate open-Pavlov bell rings, "food, my favorite," said Groucho Marx-and long career. There will be a few hundred bikes and cars today, but in months as December can reach triple. It is a funnel stock for eight blocks and the climate of competition for access to the best lots. Although it is festive without joy, because everyone knows firsthand that doing this is a conviction in the skin and anticipate how out of there, there is a euphoria resolve cross-jokes and sociability and bravado hormone. After a while of walking with them, which in my eyes is disgusting garbage change sign: it will become, as they say in "goods." At
rot, the battle begins. People know, some are friends and others hate. Reina the rush to hold the only time that the feast will be offered, for fishing in the same shit hundred kilos of sausage, three broken plasmas which may leave a healthy, yogurt, Avon cosmetics box. For all that is necessary to sink into the sticky floor and put her arms, the gloves are not for food. The scene updates where the black box that stir visceral Abattoir, Esteban Echeverría, but together tends more to the future than the past. Somehow, tensions over food around the world are played here too.
course where there is money, there is method and a trading system. That there is a trash mob in Ceamse now seems beyond doubt. Governs a previous shift-called privileged cardboard suppliers - which comes just hours before marking their loot. These Bagay with recipient are called "lines" in the evening and are covered with plastic. For the lurch on a single bike, three longshoremen take 300 kilos of minced meat to the output load on one of those Valiant retain only first gear. Will sell a few blocks, to 5 pesos per kilo. That evening there were great bursts of hot dogs in bags of one hundred kilos, and dog food: a kilo of balanced resold to 2 pesos. Who picked denied that sell sausages, p ero later Carcova some boxes open their windows and resell dogs and yogurt. It is impossible to determine which trademarks are each batch of waste, but obviously come from mills and refrigerators, all come in bags with no markings. The pickers say they raise food for all brands. We also saw huge packs of bread crumbs which later caught processed chicken legs. If companies pay to Ceamse completion of its waste, four hours after they are cast and re-entered the next level below. Outside the burning, the meat does not differ in any of the burgers "home" of any neighborhood butcher. Some of us hoped that in the case of the sausage and ham, puzza is masked with a bleach step. Others say that the purchase of swine farms.
Back on the road, the kids look older. Van smeared from head to foot, fat mess of milk and organic mud that splashed over an hour. Each one returns with his own, more hardened, sullen than the leg. The pibas go in groups, almost all with some older woman. Heroines have a moral strength to fight on par and it is possible to imagine dancing "Blossom murderer," once they got washed in the squalid little water undrinkable reaching Carcova in a PVC hoses. They hear a threat ("If I say something, I grind a dry stick," they mean "before greeting her.") But they are, in fact, more front, the most politicized and those that best express. Until they sense a strong identification with President Cristina Kirchner, where the boys are mostly concentrated in the demolition or collection of complaints. And every time you hear a new vocabulary, which long ago took leave from school and away from the common language.
is made of onomatopoeia, "conchaetumadres" and other contractions, such violent words magma forced to think again from scratch. I hear an insult crazy, scheduled to perfection with a stone to one that takes your car out, "fucking lambeverga Pig!" Some young people yell at me, "Lady, no sign here!" I tell you, rest assured. The photographer was far behind, stopped by the police who never knew if they wanted to take care of the rain of stones. Not only do the cameras and embarrass the feast yellow. What they do not want for anything in the world is that supply is cut! Here still hear regret at the suspension of the Tren Blanco, who joined Jose Leon Suarez and Retirement. In practice, they say, it only served to make it less visible to the rag pickers, meant the privatization of access to the capital and re-concentrated cartoneo Mafia. In the short term, maybe they are right and the banquet should continue, because in fact what gives nausea is hunger in the factory of soy. But in the medium term, the Quemaikén cirujeo is aberrant, is the irony that blows up the entire line. Upon leaving the burning, we went back to being near the pampas. 02/13/1911
