Marques Joao steps uneasily over the pile of plastic which sits like a glacier in front of his work building. Searching for little brown bottles, he picks them out of the pile and fills his bucket. He works for ASMOG, a community organisation operating in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique, whose mission is to gather plastic waste and sell it to recycling companies.
"The government doesn’t recycle or sell plastics," says Eugidio Gobo, who leads ASMOG in the Pemba municipality, which generates around 130 tonnes of plastic each month. Ten tonnes of which is collected by ASMOG, mostly off beaches. It is a local organisation seeking to create something positive for the community. But the world in which it works is becoming increasingly challenging.
