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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Early in the morning, 20-something Istabraq Mohammad starts her working day at a waste-sorting station in Irbid province in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, where she hands out general safety equipment to staff to protect them from risk of infection. Istabraq’s job is feeding all the plastic waste into a machine which crushes it ready to be converted into new plastic products. She then switches focus to the cardboard waste – this needs to be inserted into a giant press which folds and packs it so that it can be sold to carton factories. Though she has a degree in early child education w…