A day in the life of a Hong Kong cardboard collector
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Local concern group Waste Picker Platform invited Legislative Council member Eddie Chu to shadow 67-year-old cardboard collector Au Fung-lan, who refers to herself as “Lan Jei” or “Sister Lan”, for a day to experience her life and raise awareness about the use of public space.
(Photo: Edward Wong)
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@@donnamaco1 you coconut-malled us
Bless that woman!.... And, all people like her.......Do more stories such as this..... These people are heros!.....
There was an old woman collecting bottles plastic and glass, to recycle in a ritzy part of New York City. She stuck out like crazy especially since she was pushing around a grocery cart full of recycling with bags and bags tied to it. Needless to say, my heart broke into a million pieces. It was so cold out and snowing, and there was this lady doing what should be seen as a noble thing for society only to make a very meager living. I bought her something warm to drink and helped her until my hands froze. I left a $20 bill with her after fighting against her refusal to take it. That memory is seared into my mind.
_"I will retire when I have no energy to push the cart"_ -- I hope Sister Lan has the energy for many many years.
I wish her the best.
These people are the unrecognized and invisible heros of our society.
Salute these people. Every single cents earned are coming from their own hard work, they don't just sitting in the streets begging anyone to give them money and food.
What a nice and kind woman! She is truly a silent hero!
I sometimes see cardboard collectors on the street, and I feel tempted to help them, but I couldn't since either I was in a hurry or I had no courage.
Atleast you wanna help, just muster that courage next time, you'll feel better if you actually helped them
@@ragnaroslil3493
Right.
@All the World's Evil
Dude. You don't even feel how I feel! You're really rude. "Wtf, you need courage to help people, just help". I bet your darn self doesn't even live in Hong Kong. Do you even know that Hong Kong is really crowded? Do you know that your country and Hong Kong is different? And do you even know that even one move of helping you'll get viral? Please do, before you even reply this.
@All the World's Evil
Well, at least you didn't have to be rude. I dislike attention and if attention's on me, I would just melt.
@@-pastaman-2284 If I want to help someone, I never or will not thing about anything. All I do is purely from the heart. Be a human, not human being.
And personally, I don't like and want give money to someone/beggars/hobo on the street. If I give money, they might use it for bad ways (drugs, smoke, etc). So I give food instead
If they really beg money for their own life sake, they will accept the food. But if there's someone deny the food I give and just want money, I surely know that he/she is not so poor to be a beggar on the street. They will end up use money for other things.
Someone gotta do the dirty work, yep she's doing it, helping the country clearing the dumps
GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK, AND HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT.👍☺
And I thought I was suffering 😞 I really wish I could help them but Iam helpless myself 😣 I can only wish them goodluck and May the triple gem bless them ❤️
These people have more fun than the typical office worker in HK.
Yeah I'm sure these typical office worker can't wait to quit their medial jobs and go pick up cardboards any day now...
In my Opinion,I have Respect For These People.1. They earn Honest Living(Although not much).2. They Recycling Things.
I ADMIRE her !! (I am her age)
I'm proud to be a Chinese :)
The thing is that Asians are so hardworking!
NuggetOfBlueGold Dude what the fvck? If us Chinese are not hardworking, how did we climb from being the spittoon of the world to being one of the world's superpower, in just forty years?! The fact that you see racism in every corner is typical american attitude, where you only see the fault in others, and see yourself as superior. Let me tell you, the reason why America got so developed: you sat on your arse across the atlantic as Europe was destroyed in the first and second world war, swooping into the conflict only when victory is certain and claim the lion's share of the plunder; you destroyed the Soviet Union in the cold war; and then you toppled the governments of 72 countries who stands in your way. HARD WORK EVERYBODY👏👏👏 No, your success is rooted in militarism and plunder, killing and instability, America prospers when the world is at it's darkest hour. Now that there is peace in the world, your government brainwashes young generations like you to bark like trained dogs online, criticizing everything and solving nothing.
see how offended you get when I talk sh*t about your country? Us Chinese are people too, we get just as offended and upset when you talk sh*t about China. So stop doing that
The Aunties in Sai Kung are respected recyclers. It was always a pleasure to give them a bag of cardboard.
"i'll work until the day i cannot work, i will retire when i have no energy to push the cart" BLESS YOU
Contentment and gratitude in what I have grows bigger when I see others. Life is not that great but it's OK. I wish and I hope I can do something for them and others alike but I can't. I can pray for it to get better for all.
Maybe they should have an “official uniform & cart” if they’re important. Not necessarily a government uniform but just a smart jacket, hat and cart supplied by the local council.
I wish there was a way we can donate or help those poor people
It’s extremely sad to think that good people like this woman will not be able to afford a lot of things in life..
Seeing this tiny old woman pushing that overloaded cart in her baggy shorts and thin flip flops nearly made me bust out in tears. Okay, I did cry, I admit it! What. The. Heck?! The reason she is sore and full of pain when she is not working is BECAUSE of all the crazy hard work pushing that overloaded cart! My God! All I kept thinking was if I won the lottery I would make sure she lived in a decent place and had daily massages and nice food. And good supportive shoes! This broke my heart.
I wish her all the best
'Shop owners routinely leave used cardboard boxes and foam waste on the streets' - in mainland and rest of the world people use something called rubbish bin
She is a HERO.
I hope the best for these people.
Thumbs up this man helping her... 2:00 to 2:01 he was like hope I don't get ram by a moving vehicle.
700 to 1k dollar a month if she lived in U.S she would easily have gotten 1 bedroom apartment and some decent food.
My parents always taught me to leave used newspaper or cardboard on the side of the recycling bin instead of inside the bin so the collectors could profit from it. Sometimes you can see newspapers left ON a bin instead of in it, that’s so they don’t have to go through the bin to get it
As an asian american its heart breaking to see this video cause the elderly here in the US are mostly overweight and wheelchair assisted living off welfare
Singapore has many such cardboard collecting grannies and grandpas
She makes ok money ($1000 USD) and looks like she's having a lot of fun especially when the young guy is helping her but deserves to have friends and a caretaker at her age so she doesn't get lonely
Dam $1,020 that like a full time job in America
Ahhhh...that's incorrect. The minimum wage in San Francisco is $15/hour or $2,600/month...and San Francisco is IN America.
Stay Safe & Keep on Fighting ^ω^
Those who disliked probably have zero empathy. Lets pray for anyone with lives as bad as hers to get better... 😭😭
aunty, u had my respect. poor nevermind as long as we work for our own living without stealing or cheating
Wow she earns more than me
@Diana Day she may earn a lot but my cost of living is much lower
38 US dollars a day, that's more than I thought they'd make for collecting rubbish for recycling. Then again, usually when you get stories about people making a living picking waste, it's usually in India where they're earning less than a dollar a day
Still, full respect to these refuse workers, being part of Hong Kong's waste management system and making a living even when they're not officially organised
$1020 in a month, you can live like a boss in Indo
Same in Bulgaria , my salary is $450 and I'm a designer 😂
My grandma so lazy!
Here in Brooklyn I always see them but instead of cardboard, they take plastic
Be safe work hard :D
Earning a thousand dollars a month is not bad for collecting card board boxes on the streets in Hong Kong.
she works harder than every billionaire on the planet, potentially combined.
it's possible that she actually has a lot of money/saving
😇😇
The economic system that we live needs to support more lives that aren't able to keep up with economic demand, i.e "Job Market." It's truly inspiring to see the human soul to continue believing for a better tomorrow, bless this women.
I'll work until the day I cannot work. I will retire when I have no energy to push the cart. - 67 year old woman cardboard collector Au Fung-lan (LAN not ian. lol.)
Oh wow she earns more money that my whole family's income per month 😕
remember, the price of living in HK is extremely high, everything is very pricey. So that money is not that considerable
From cardboard to corona
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Even in my place, cardboard collectors are not very welcomed and its mainly their own fault. They often make a mess on our garbage bins and outright steal anything we put in front of our door like shoes, vases, and hung laundry. The honest and sincere ones like the lady in this video is very rare
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1:19 I see what you did there.
1:18 no offense but it's too funny
Why don’t black people in the US be like her
I wish I had more of this woman’s spirit... admirable