Stylist Julia Wanja picks her way delicately through piles of food waste, discarded masks, rubber gloves and other rubbish at Nairobi's Dandora dumpsite, looking for used hair extensions she can clean and resell to customers. For the most part - Wanja's hair looks brand new and her clientele say as long as it's clean - they don't mind where it comes from.

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