Modern recycling vehicles were exhibited to dignitaries at this week's Earth Day forum at the Hilton Hotel as the symbol of the future of high technology recycling in Jeddah. Meanwhile, somewhere in south Jeddah, only a few miles away, but a world apart from the five-star glitz and glamor of the forum, an Asian worker sits separating a mountain of garbage-covered cans with a pair of tattered gloves as his only high-tech equipment. – SG photos by Mohammad Mazhar Siddiqi and Fouzia Khan __
