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/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "peh" (as in "pet") + "nah" (as in "nacho") + "DOHR" (as in "door")/
A person who collects trash, cardboard, plastic, and recyclable materials from the streets to sell them. They're essential to Mexico's informal recycling system and work incredibly hard for very little money.
“The waste pickers sort the plastics from the cardboard every day.”
“Without waste pickers there'd be way more trash in the streets.”
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/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "peh" (as in "pet") + "nah" (as in "nacho") + "DOHR" (as in "door")/
A person who collects trash, cardboard, plastic, and recyclable materials from the streets to sell them. They're essential to Mexico's informal recycling system and work incredibly hard for very little money.
“The waste pickers sort the plastics from the cardboard every day.”
“Without waste pickers there'd be way more trash in the streets.”
Atolondrado
A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.