Where does trash go?
Bantar Gebang Landfill, Indonesia
Above: Basir, 8, helps his sister, Ning, climb the “mountain” of waste to find usable plastic.
Bantar Gebang, Indonesia's largest landfill, is a 110-hectare (that's about 11,840,301 square feet) mound of trash. Nicknamed “the mountain” by locals, most of the town's 2,000 residents live off of it: Families rummage through the rubbish for items they can sell to independent recycling companies.
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Ghazipur Landfill, India
Above: Women collecting trash scour the landfill among cattle, picking food and recyclables before sunset.
Known as “trash mountain,” New Delhi's disposal site stretches across 70 acres and has been collecting about 9,200 tons of trash a day. Waste has grown 50% since 2007, and it's expected to double — and overflow Ghazipur — by 2024.
Port-Au-Prince Landfill, Haiti
Above: A local man holds up some animal parts he found as he stands amid heaping piles of trash.
The devastating earthquake from 2012 left thousands of displaced and homeless Haitians to scavenge their landfill site for usable items.
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Waste Site at the Gaza Strip
Above: a Palestinian boy digs through the mounds to collect plastic to be sold for recycling.
Nonfunctioning collection vehicles, waste site toxins leaking into the ground, and no to little resources for hazardous waste disposal have led multiple landfill sites to overflow.
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