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Recycling to Survive in Sudan

NPR | By Jason Beaubien
Published May 27, 2005 at 11:00 PM CDT
Workers at an airstrip in Rumbek, in South Sudan, hack apart the fuselage of an old transport plane with axes. Later the aluminum will be recycled into cooking pots.
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Workers at an airstrip in Rumbek, in South Sudan, hack apart the fuselage of an old transport plane with axes. Later the aluminum will be recycled into cooking pots.

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Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk.
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