NEW: Journalist Adnan Khan takes us inside the deadly business of plastics recycling, profiling Afghan refugees in Turkey who face slave labor conditions and suffer at the convergence of EU refugee policies and a ballooning market for plastic waste.

A Deadly Trade—Refugee Labor in Turkey and Europe's Plastic Waste - MERIP

In May 2021, at just 13-years old, Hayat found himself wandering aimlessly on the streets of Istanbul, dazed and a little terrified. A slight, fine-boned child, he cut a fragile figure amid the hard-e...