Culture
The Crew Bringing Recycling to Tunis
Meet the volunteers working to curb the city’s teeming garbage problem.
On The Job is a series of conversations with the people who keep neighborhoods running.
Mohamed Ben Hassan checks the black bags that have just arrived in a large, dark, one-room building in the Tunis suburb of La Marsa. He looks to make sure that no cans or glass bottles have gotten mixed in with the plastic containers. Ben Hassan, who works as a freelance translator, is one of the volunteers at Tunisie Recyclage, a small NGO that has started recycling garbage in Tunisia’s capital.