Enterprise and ingenuity thrive amid the waste in Nairobi – photo essay
by Sarah Boseley in Nairobi; photographs by David Lev from Environment | The Guardian on (#2V8PZ)
Its fetid landscape may be strewn with debris from the sprawling Kenyan capital, but fortune favours the bold at Nairobi's Enterprise Road recycling centre
It is an apocalyptic scene. Fires burn amid the detritus on the side of a major road, sending acrid smoke into the air. Thin men in filthy clothes move amid the rubbish. Some recline on old sofas, watching as trucks lurch past, spewing diesel fumes just feet away. Women and children emerge and disappear down a passage of corrugated iron leading to slum houses illuminated by light bulbs that are linked, illegally, to a mains supply by overhead wires.
Welcome to Enterprise Road, Nairobi's recycling centre.
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