You heard it on No Te Duermas
On the radio program, we spoke with Luis Coria, representative of the Federation of Recyclers of the Province of Buenos Aires, who lamented the present of the cartoneros with the importation of the material.
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At the beginning of the note on No Te Duermas, Luis Coria analyzed: “In reality, we are having a bad time, it is going to be a very bad Christmas and New Year for us. Because the cardboard is almost $360 per kilo, the companions are given $80 for those who buy it. And those of us who collect it in large tons, we have to wait 40 days for them to pay us.”
“The truth is that it is not cheaper for them to bring it. They prefer to import it because it is the same thing that happens with textiles, which they say is cheaper to bring it from abroad. But now not only cardboard, also recyclable plastic. It is desperate for us because we cannot sustain ourselves with this.
Most of us had an issue with the program ‘Argentina Trabaja’ that today is now at $78,000,” he added.
He also pointed out that “in the neighborhoods it is complicated because public works and works in general have stopped, and that makes more people go out on the street” and that “in addition,
consumption has fallen a lot. Today, to be able to make a meal for the family you need more than 150 kilos of cardboard. At least that is enough to make a stew in a day.”
“It is impossible. Before we had some help with merchandise and the programs that we had been piloting quite well and today, thank God, the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires sent us at least to have a sweet bread on the table because the Nation does nothing,” he assured.
The complications due to low consumption
Then, Coria narrated: “Yesterday the president spoke on the national network about the importation of cardboard as if it were a revolutionary event and the truth is that it is not. We cut back, we talked to people so they keep buying from us, but the guys don’t want to know anything anymore.”
“The low consumption was the final blow to us. Because we have the pulse of consumption and we work with it every day, and we see that third or fourth brand soda containers appear. The first brands appear 1 in 100. That doesn’t matter because the material is all the same. I think that today only on weekends our people can sit down to drink a soda,” he lamented.
He later detailed that “in the Federation today we have more than 15,000 colleagues only in the AMBA and there must be about 12,000 in the rest of the country” and that “we have to add the family because they depend on that. And so you have five more federations. In total we are more than 80,000.”
The lack of mobilizations
In the final stretch, the interviewee commented: “The textile and construction industries are also having a hard time, it’s a terrible package. Those of us who are already graying have gone out to fight De La Rúa for much less, which was the hyperinflation of Alfonsín. I am shocked because there is no one who can take us to fight and who can fight. In 2001 it was the people who started with the looting and ended up in Plaza de Mayo.”
“Everyone laughs in our faces. The senators, the deputies with all the things they do and no one does anything or says anything. They want to remove from the game of politics a person who was president twice and vice president once out of fear,” he developed.
To close, he mentioned that “the Province does not receive what it should be given, Kicillof already said it, just like the rest of the country that is in the same conditions” and that “so it is very difficult for everyone.”
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