English

Noun

cartonero ‎(plural cartoneros)

1. A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
   • 2015 June 25, James B. Stewart, “If Greece Defaults, Imagine Argentina, but Much Worse”, in New York Times:

     Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”