2026-09-09
22 分钟Bloomberg Audio Studios.
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On top of a mountain of discarded plastic, a 43-year-old woman named Sunita Rathor is hard at work.
She's in a bright yellow sari with green glass bangles, sifting through piles of litter.
Plastic waste, which she'll sort and clean for recycling.
Sunita is based in New Delhi, but scenes like this one take place every day all over India.
On construction sites, in homes, and recycling plants where manual labor is done.
Nothing out of the ordinary, except for one thing.
Suddenly you saw this high-tech contraption on her forehead, an iPhone.
An iPhone strapped to her head, recording every move she makes.
Saritha Rai covers tech in India for Bloomberg.
She met Sunita at a recycling plant earlier this year.
Sunita has spent years sorting and cleaning discarded plastic for about $200 a month.
Usually, the factories where she works are lively places.
There's a lot of banter, there's a lot of conversation,
there's a lot of silliness that goes on,
but in this, it was deathly quiet,
because all these women were not allowed to talk to each other.
Eight hours a day in total silence, but that's not all.
She was hunched forward constantly