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Now fashion is the name of the game here in Austria,  
時尚是目前奧地利最熱門的產業。  

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but you might be surprised to learn that some of the most desirable items come from one of the most unlikely of sources.  
不過，你要是知道有些最熱門的商品是怎麼來的，恐怕會大吃一驚。  

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Satinder Bindra has been finding out.
薩亭德‧賓德拉前往探究這些商品的來源。

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A cold start to rag picker Shanker's workday.  
寒冷的早晨，拾荒者桑可即將展開一天的工作。  

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He huddles for warmth by this fire.  
他先靠在火堆旁取暖。  

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Then, after a simple breakfast of hot milk and toast, he sets off in his rickety cart to keep his first appointment of the morning.
簡單吃過熱牛奶和土司充當早餐之後，他便牽著搖搖晃晃的三輪車去趕赴一早的約會。

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Just a short distance away, Raika Davi is already at work, busy collecting hundreds of such discarded and soiled plastic bags.  
就在不遠的地方，萊卡‧達維早已開始工作，忙著撿拾千百只這種廢棄的塑膠袋。  

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It's back-breaking work, but there's no shortage of these bits and pieces of plastic.
這項工作非常累人，但是塑膠袋倒是撿都撿不完。

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With an economy growing at almost 8 percent a year,  
印度每年的經濟成長率將近百分之八，  

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India now consumes 5 million tons of plastic a year and will soon become the world's third-largest consumer after the U.S. and China.  
目前每年用掉的塑膠達五百萬噸，不久就會成為世界上第三大的塑膠消費國，次於美國與中國。  

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But with growth comes increasing pollution.
不過，隨著經濟成長，污染情形也愈來愈嚴重。

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Rag pickers have traditionally helped recycle a lot of this material.  
傳統上，拾荒者幫忙回收了許多這類物質。  

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But now, a private nonprofit organization called Conserve has come up with a new idea.  
但目前有一個叫做「保育」的私人非營利組織想出了一個新主意。  

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It's hiring hundreds of rag pickers like Raika to manufacture more upscale 
這個組織雇用了上百名像萊卡這樣的拾荒者，

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and avant-garde products, like handbags, sandals and belts from discarded plastic.
而利用廢棄塑膠製造比較昂貴、比較新潮的產品，例如手提包、涼鞋、以及腰帶。

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Once the bags are cut, they're rigorously hand-washed in detergent.  
塑膠袋先經過裁剪，再浸入清潔劑中徹底手洗乾淨。  

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After they're aired and dried out, they're once again sorted and stacked into these colorful heaps.
風乾之後，就分類堆疊成這些五顏六色的塑膠堆。

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The plastic is then compressed and heated, and since this technology is still in the process of being patented, we couldn't film it.  
然後，這些塑膠還得經過壓縮與加熱。由於這種技術目前仍在申請專利，因此不能拍攝加工過程。  

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But take a look at this: the rebirth of hundreds of thousands of grimy and soiled plastic bags into eye-catching sheets.
但是請看看加工後的結果：成千上萬骯髒破舊的塑膠袋重生成為鮮豔搶眼的布料。

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These sheets are then stitched into bags, belts, bracelets and shoes by trained craftsmen.  
接著，技藝純熟的工匠就會把這些布料縫成提袋、腰帶、手環、以及鞋子。  

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Watching and supervising the entire operation are Anita and Shalabh Ahuja, the founders of Conserve.  
負責監控整個生產過程的是艾妮塔‧阿胡佳與舍拉布‧阿胡佳，也就是「保育」的創辦人。  

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From just a few workers when they first started out two and a half years ago, the Ahujas now hire 300 people.  
在兩年半前草創初期的時候，整個組織只有幾個工作人員，但是現在已有三百名員工。  

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They promote from within the organization and plow everything they earned back into the business.
組織裡的管理人員都由內部人員升遷而來，所賺的利潤也全部用於組織的發展上。

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Shalabh Ahuja is an engineer.  
舍拉布是工程師，  

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He's responsible for the technical end of operations.  
負責生產活動的技術層面，  

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His wife Anita is an artist, the one who's designed all these handbags.  
他的太太艾妮塔則是藝術家，這些手提袋全都出自她的設計。  

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The Ahujas now annually export such bags worth $150,000 across the world, a far cry from their earlier days, 
阿胡佳夫婦現在每年銷往世界各地的提袋價值達十五萬美元，與他們初期的營運狀況實在有如天壤之別。

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when Anita says it was hard to get people interested in her work.
艾妮塔說，那時候根本沒人對她的作品有興趣。

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Some of Anita's bags are now being sold in London's boutique stores.  
現在，艾妮塔設計的提袋也有些擺在倫敦的精品店販售。  

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Each colorful bag here can set back customers almost 40 euros or $50.  
每一只色彩鮮豔的提袋，在這裡的訂價都高達四十歐元，相當於五十美元，  

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But they're buying them as fast as Conserve can ship them out.
但是仍然供不應求。

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I think they are fantastic.  
我覺得這些提袋實在太神奇了，  

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They are so unique that I've never seen any other bags made from recycled plastic bags.  
而且又非常獨特。我從來沒看過用回收塑膠袋製成的提袋。  

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I mean you wouldn't believe it if you saw them and you touched them.
我是說，你如果看過、摸過這些袋子，一定不會相信這是回收塑膠袋的製品。

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Raika Davi also finds it hard to believe a process that started out in the slums of New Delhi could have ended up in London.  
這些源自新德里貧民窟的產品，竟然會在倫敦出售，也讓萊卡‧達維覺得不可思議。  

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She also has no clue that some of the bags she and others here helped make sell for $50, almost 75 percent of her monthly salary.
而她也完全想不到自己和其他人所參與製作的這些提袋，竟能賣到五十美元的價格，幾乎是萊卡月薪的七成五。

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Fellow rag picker Shanker now hopes other poor people will get involved in similar projects, schemes that not just recycle, but help build lives across the world.
另一名拾荒者桑可希望其他窮人也能參與類似的計畫，不只回收資源，也讓世界各地的窮人獲得營生的機會。