"The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn."

"Then the smoke parts and you come across a child ambling barefoot, searching for old plastic cups that recyclers will buy for five cents a pound. Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage."

Is that the image you have in mind when you see that the product you buy is made from recycled materials?

Meanwhile, the child dreams of a job in what we would call a sweatshop.