Rubbish sold in Greece's hardtimes bazaar

Name: Rubbish sold in Greece's hardtimes bazaar
Uploaded: 2011-01-17T07:18:02.000Z
Description: Victims of Greece's economic crisis scour rubbish bins to find items to sell in the weekly market, as the austerity measures hit the country hard.

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Greece's financial meltdown is making life hard for many people, as austerity measures bite.

Some Greeks are being forced to scour rubbish bins in order to survive.

They try to sell the proceeds at a weekly market run by the Garbage Collectors Association.

The BBC's Malcolm Brabant reports.

World

17 January 2011