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 find the recyclable items from a big pile of rubbish, and all for a minimum wage. Apart from the small, 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 use 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 butter for myself and my family.