
Tunis, Tunisia – The heat bears down, mixing with the acrid smell of rotting refuse, 54-year-old Issa Jawadi ignores it, busy at work.
Jawadi is surrounded by piles of rubbish that have spilled out from a skip in which he forages. This is how he earns a living – he has been collecting discarded plastic bottles since the revolution, more than a decade ago. Before that, he served nine and a half years in prison for reasons he does not want to go into.