Mexico City feels like a forest, roots and green bursting out of every corner, this palimpsest of a city has been, for some time now, devouring itself.

"In neighborhoods where mostly single people live, the tea comes in bags. Beşiktaş is a special case: There, they drink coffee instead.”

Traditionally known as the paper collectors (kağıt toplayıcıları) among other names, the informal recycling workers of Turkey walk four to twenty kilometers a day, pulling their heavy loaded cart to earn their bread out of trash. They form a patchy network, often invisible by circumstance and by design.