Brazil is an emerging economy, but its growing wealth is also leading to a growing trash problem.<br /><br />In Brazil "catadores" are people who work for cooperatives and pick through trash for valuables <br />to recycle. Cooperatives are key to the recycling system now in place here in Brazil, only two percent of<br /> Brazil's domestic waste ends up being recycled. 60% of allBrazil's trash ends up in open-air landfills, in Rio de Janeiro.<br /><br />The government has made it mandatory for all states to have a sustainable trash plan by 2014 --and that's <br />opening up new doors for creative business.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao Paolo.
