KENYA: Joseph Maina: "For every 30kg of waste, they pay me 50 shillings"

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Joseph Maina rummages through waste at Boma, the nickname for the Dandora municipal dumpsite in the eastern part of Nairobi. He is looking for bottles, plastic containers, anything that shop owners and local companies will buy for recycling. He talked to IRIN about eking a living out of the 12 hectare rubbish site. "I came here in 1996 after I stopped going to school because there was no money. "I come here every day early in the morning. We remove...