Cartonero Armando Hernandez Lamas, El Paso – 12/28/2007

Cartonero Alejandro Gonzalez, El Paso – 12/28/2007

Cartonero Hernandez in central El Paso

Cartonero Gonzalez, central El Paso

Armando Hernandez’ handmade tricicleta

Los Cartoneros

In a desert, on the border, nothing much gets wasted.

Cartoneros, paper haulers, collect discarded and surplus paper and card board from border streets and from border merchants and haul it on their customized ” tricicletas.” They then sell it to scrap buyers, located about a mile from the border shopping district in the Segundo barrio.