"I decided to give the boys at the Recycling School a small, one-chip video camera so they could film themselves. I was hoping that this would also provide the boys a sense of ownership, so that in some way, they were the authors of their own stories."

Trash to Trade: The GARBAGE DREAMS Game

Goats, trucks, and territories; organics, paper, and tin. Learn how the Zaballeen turn trash into cash. Play the recycling game.

The Filmmaker

"It was gratifying to witness these teenage boys growing up and becoming young men.... They always reminded me why I cared about this issue in the first place — because of the people I met along the way."