You are supposed to sort your own rubbish and put glass in one bag,paper in another, but unfortunately many people still do not do this. So workers in a recycling plant have to fine the recyclable ithems from a big pile of rubbish, and all for a minimum wage. Apart from the smell, they have to handle dirty nappies, rotting meat, used needles. "I've heard of people catching hepatitis from working in those places," says Solomon lwenofu. "I did it for a while when I first arrived in America I actually got on with the people working there. We used to laugh about some of the things we found. After a while, I even got used to being dirty all the time, but, you know, I wanted to do better for myself and my family.