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This millionaire wakes up at dawn to pick up trash

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This millionaire wakes up at the crack of dawn every day to clean up the town he lives in.

Armed with plastic bags and a pair of tongs, the man - known only as Yo - walks the streets of Bahrain at around 5am picking up rubbish.

What's stranger is the fact that the man isn't even a Bahraini. He's a South Korean investor who lives there.

And he has been picking up trash for the past 11 years, reported Huffington Post.

A video of the millionaire garbage man was posted on YouTube last week.

Makes people sick

Mr Yo said in the clip: "There is a lot of garbage and this makes people sick. It causes problems."

Pointing to bags filled with trash he collected from the streets, Mr Yo proudly proclaimed: "This is all money."

According to the video, Mr Yo not only picks up trash, he also sorts it, separating the recyclable from the non-recyclables.

The person who filmed the clip, Mr Omar Varov, said: "Mr Yo is a real-life example. He is neither perfect nor imaginary. And I was wondering how many Mr Yos we need to keep our world clean?

"But I realised, if each one of us picked up the trash in front of us, we'll not need the likes of Mr Yo. We all would be Mr Yo."

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