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Frank López Ballesteros

Frank López Ballesteros was a reporter at the newspaper El Universal in Caracas from  2007-15. López Ballesteros was part of the team of investigative journalists at Playboy Venezuela. Since 2017, he has been a contributor to Diario Las Américas in Miami, where he conducts investigative reporting on organized crime, corruption, and state politics in Florida. 

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Each piece of cardboard holds many life stories: Almost 80 years old, George, a native of Georgia, collects cardboard every morning in a supermarket cart. When the cart is full, he sells the material to a processing plant. Photo by Frank López Ballesteros.
Recycling in obscurity
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Stories by Our Fellows
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April 28, 2025

Invisible but essential to the global recycling industry, the cardboard collectors of Miami-Dade earn a living by breaking down each piece of cardboard by hand, with no guaranteed income or labor protections. (Originally published by Intempnews, palabra and Diario las Americas)

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