Philosophy & Recycling in Albania

Miranda Fejzo is an unlikely person to find standing in the middle of a rubbish heap. Smartly dressed in matching black jacket and skirt, with white high heels, she explains the intricacies of recycling while carefully navigating between piles of discarded plastic bottles and heaps of cardboard and tins."Here comes the rubbish," she says - long, silver coloured fingernails pointing at a battered truck about to disgorge its smelly load. Miranda, is in charge of what is Albania's first - and only - door to door rubbish collection service. In a male dominated community her path has not always been smooth. "It has been very difficult for me," she says. "But I have much determination."

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