Pakistan plans plastic reform but its informal recyclers hold the key

On a balmy winter day, Irfanullah Wahid and his cousin Faisal Asadullah amble through a maze of carts in Karachi’s Shireen Jinnah neighbourhood. They are young — only 11 and 10 years old respectively — and the white bags they carry are almost as tall as they are. They laugh and joke, but their eyes