they can turn into ready cash -- deposit bottles or cans that will bring a few cents. 7-year-old mathildans the rest of the family to help her father make a living. on good days, they can scrape together about eight euros. she's proud to be going to first grade at primary school. but her home is this garbage dump in the albanian capital tirana. it may be hard for most europeans to believe the conditions tirana's 600,000-odd inhabitants live under. and unless they've seen it with their own eyes, it's difficult to imagine the polluted river flowing through the middle of town -- and straight into the adriatic sea. deputy mayor in charge of infrastructure enno bozdo claims the government's trying to raise awareness of the need for environmental protection, but that takes time. >> the situation we're facing now -- it is not so strange for most of the european countries. in the 1960's and 1970's, in the germany, there were plenty of illegal dumps on both sides of the river. and of course, it takes to undertake a very energetic action, definitely. first, we want to recuperate from the civil war