Hong Kong is one of the world's richest cities, so why are thousands of elderly residents collecting rubbish to survive?
Office workers rush past, oblivious to the army of grey-haired residents toiling in the shadows of Hong Kong's soaring skyscrapers.
Dragging trolleys laden with waste, they sell whatever they can collect for just a few dollars.
Hong Kong is home to 64 billionaires and has the highest number of Rolls-Royces per capita in the world.
But one in three elderly people lives in poverty - one of the highest senior poverty rates in the developed world.
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