In total contrast to filth of the recycling and scrap yards, we encountered this high-tech, smart factory producing water catchment units to serve the affluent houses all over the Middle East....

We found this young lad, a Palestian refugee, working in a scrapyard on the edge of Amman. Looking much older than his years, he stands in front of these elusive UNHCP tents. The slogan on his sweater seems all too prescient...

Young Syrian refugee boy working at Jordan’s Al Huseyniyat landfill site, near the Syrian border. His F1 jacket belies the terrible working conditions and intense heat generated working here under the April sun on the edge of the desert....

Packs of rapid dogs circle the periphery and high mounds among rubbish at Jordan’s Al Huseyniyat landfill site. They bark ferociously when you get with 10 metres of them....

In Al Huseyniyat landfill site, there is a strict hierarchy concerning those who can unload the incoming trucks. Only the long-standing workers get "first pickings"....

Young Syrian refugee boy working at Jordan’s Al-Elhysniat Landfill-Site, near the Syrian border. His F1 jacket belies the terrible working conditions and intense heat generated working here under the April sun on the edge of the desert....