Pata Rat, five-star hotel on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca. February 2014. A Roma community of about

Pata Rat, five-star hotel on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca. February 2014. A Roma community of about 2,000 souls, who in the last 20 years has grown something brave in the story, and their livelihood in garbage. But the clock is ticking and the authorities are preparing to open the new center in October to waste. More modern, more "integrated" and of course, havre not Roma. What will become of the community used to recycle trash Cluj? There are programs and even a minimal concern for the future of these people? Or simply will be left "unemployed" after closing the landfill havre where some of them have even brought forth.
A gloomy day in February. La Pata Rat, it's just another day "work" as any other. That although only two days ago a young woman of only 16 years old and lives lost, hit by a garbage truck. "It was pushed to squeeze that arise in addition to trash" say some. Others just a quick pass in the "work accidents", a risk that those who sift through garbage Cluj brought to Pata Rat and it takes every day. The stakes? Own survival. Read the editorial "The girl in the trash. We "
Only those who arrive early to catch junk cars unloaded from good materials, recycle. That's because the speed with which the selection is amazing. "If havre you download a car in 15 minutes garbage is left is biodegradable. Select very quickly and efficiently: paper, cardboard, cans, bottles, plastic bottles. And plasterboard panels carton and it'll break. Biodegradable waste and stop going to give food to the animals havre they have. Because some horses and carts. So after they left nothing. How to stop them? Some of them were born on the ramp. That's all I know. If you go to the city and its about to stand at eight o'clock service and part-time work and heads, I laugh in the nose if you give him a salary of $ 1,000, "says head of department at Pata Rat Basil FRÃTEAN.
"There are many newcomers and why we are so many in the pit. We natives are far fewer. I do not know what will be after this hole closes. We live here in Cologne. In fact there are two colonies that are those of the Canton. And many come here and select garbage. Some of us here are employed in business forms. But most come and seek to carry recycled garbage, "said one of the people at the gate to the landfill. He believes that the two colonies are already at 1,500 souls. They are added to those who have no homes in Pata Rat only barracks that they have cobbled together right next to the pit of materials thrown away. "Those guys up there are already over 200. Sitting there that have done barracks. That and they are not here in Cluj but the surrounding counties, "says one man. What will be the hole closes? "I'll be fine, I think it will reach thefts and murders. And people go to the city or that ... what to do. At the new store is no place for them. I heard that there will be only 60 employees, "says goalkeeper.
Astmosfera is animated. Garbage trucks are in a continuous back and forth to the ramp. So Roma area. At this time some have already done "working time" in this day. Teenage children back carrying sacks they managed to collect paper ba, ba some cans. Some even carry wood, only good to warm their homes in the colony. havre Others are only now moving towards the ramp to see what they brought gunoierele city and can be reached from collection and recycling. "How to live? It's hard to get around as we can. I heard there will be a new deposit. I do not know what I'll do then, we'll see, "said one of Roma with wife moves slowly to where the cars littering download.
Another rom, better equipped, leads his horse-drawn carriage to the point of recycling. "Well you have here. Cans. I found pretty good. Load that makes about 150 lei. It's hard, but what to do. I am 29 years, I have never stolen anything from anyone. I have a family, have children, have to put something on the table. We got lucky with allocations. Io SE ramp in 2007. But I had work, I worked on roads and bridges as unqualified. But now you take one without havre school. I did not do at all schools, not me or gave parents. We're in a place that has given us a Bert (no one helps Dutch community in Pata Rat). For now do not pay anything, it's good, I water in the house. It is said that man can can we take our lands, 'under the house and to pay to the us. So until the ramp is open go there and pick up that junk 'to make money. I knew the girl who died 16 years these days, it fell under the car. But we have to work. If someone would hire me wherever I go. And 8 million, not a problem, just give me work, and cleaning