Staff of Wecyclers tries to sort recyclable goods collected from subscribers at Surulere district in Lagos on January 17, 2014. - AFP
LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria's biggest city Lagos is home to some 20 million people and produces a staggering 10,000 tonnes of waste every day, a lot of which piles up on the busy streets or floats in open sewers.
Currently, an estimated 40 percent of the megacity's waste is collected and taken to massive rubbish dumps, where scavengers pick through it for scrap and salvage to sell.
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