"I'd heard stories about it. I'd heard stories about people entering at night, clandestinely taking out materials, sneaking out again, all under the cover of nightfall... there were plenty of stories of body parts or dead bodies turning up"
In a new podcast, Patrick O’Hare describes his time with the clasificadores – the families who scavenge Montevideo’s pungent ‘wastescape’ to recover and classify anything that is valuable, usable or edible.
