A film by the participants in the
Delhi Environment Journalists' Workshop

In Delhi, rag pickers sift through hospital waste in search of medical items they can sell back to hospitals for re-use.

"I collect four or five kilos of used syringes each day," one of them tells the film-makers. "You remove the needle and they're ready for re-use!"

But the practice, which is illegal, could kill them.

"If there are live bacteria, live viruses, then they're at a very high risk of getting infected," says Dr MR Mehta at the Fortis Hospital. 

Click here to watch a short extract from the film (or right-click to save the file to your computer). This is a large file of around 5MB, so you will need a reasonably fast connection to the internet.