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Inflation in Argentina has hit 114 percent and food prices have soared117 percent in the last 12 months but wages are not keeping pace.

This has forced many women to dumpster dive in order to feed their families.

Gladys Meza and Limpia Benitez travel from the outskirts of Buenos Aires every week to scour the dumpsters outside the capital's central market.

With poverty affecting around 40 percent of the country, once considered the richest in South America, the women aren't ashamed of going through the rubbish to collect food.

Rather, they're angry at the waste.

The women travel home by bus and train, carrying up to 20 kilograms of produce each, before setting to, to clean, sort and prepare the food.

Any produce that can't be used for human consumption will be fed to the animals or used for composting.

The women can save up to $30 a week each by going through the market rubbish, surpassing what some of their friends earn cleaning houses working 9 or 10 hours a week.

Whilst they continue to search for well paid jobs and food prices continue to soar, dumpster diving will remain a necessity.

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