Most people would turn up their noses at the sweet, nauseating smell of stale baijiu - Chinese grain liquor - but not Mr Du and his family. To them, it represents a valuable source of income.
The family of waste traders buy discarded bottles of it from itinerant rubbish collectors, sort them, then sell them to glass recycling plants.
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