Meet Pedro Garcia-Gonzalez, recycler extraordinaire.

This is Pedro Garcia-Gonzalez, a man who walks the coasts of Veracruz city collecting plastic and glass bottles.  He returns the materials he collects to a recycling center, where they pay him dismally for them.  He was excited to share his story with me because he wanted me to be aware that the amount of garbage in Mexico existed for a reason: there is not enough incentive to collect the recyclable materials and return them to the recycling center 8 miles inland.  According to Pedro, the amount of work it takes to do this is not worth how much he gets paid, but his options are limited.