article_snippet.sent: Every day, About 100 families search the area for treasure -- a tiny scrap of metal, a bit of plastic, maybe a bone.
article_snippet.sent: About 100 families use large hooks to sort through the garbage, which sometimes reaches two or three stories high.
article_snippet.sent: About 100 families work in teams, and more than often About 100 families are barefoot.
article_snippet.sent: About 100 families don't look at the things About 100 families're doing as being unsanitary or unhealthy or unsafe," Photographer Timothy Bouldry said.
article_snippet.sent: About 100 families collect plastic, metal and wires and sell plastic, metal and wires by the pound.
article_snippet.sent: About 100 families make around $2 per day.
article_snippet.sent: About 100 families homes are constructed by recycled materials, with sometimes several families living in one shanty at a time.
article_snippet.sent: With no electricity, no running water -- and an overabundance of trash -- they are experts at repurposing.