South America's largest Garbage Dump to close - Rio de Janeiro

01/11

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A man carries a bag with valuable material for recycling from the landfill site at Jardim Gramacho. Vultures and other animals stay all day around the workers trying to find some food.

02/11

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People carry valuable material for recycling from the landfill site at Jardim Gramacho.

03/11

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A woman carry garabage in the dump of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The workes of the open air dump walk in the middle of the garbage 12 hours each day.

04/11

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A man close a big bag with value material for recycling in the dump of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. When the dump closes they will need find another work but most of them didn't made other job in their lifes.

05/11

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A man carries a bag with valuable material for recycling from the landfill site at Jardim Gramacho. Vultures and other animals stay all day around the workers trying to find some food.

06/11

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People take a rest meantime pick valuable material in the garbage dump of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

07/11

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The landfill site at Jardim Gramacho with Guanabara bay in the distance.

08/11

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A woman take a rest meantime pick valuable material in the garbage dump of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

09/11

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A woman looks for valuable material for recycling at the landfill site at Jardim Gramacho.

10/11

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A man looks for valuable material for recycling from the landfill site at Jardim Gramacho.

11/11

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A group of workers left the garbage dump of Rio de Janeiro at the end of the day.

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Hundreds of people pick through a mountain of trash each day in South America's biggest landfill at Jardim Gramacho. The open air dump will close in May 2012, just a few days before the UN Rio+20 conference on enviroment and sustainability.

The garbage dump Jardim Gramacho is the biggest of South America and it's going to close the next month dropping 1.200 people without work.
This dump is an enviromental hazard for Guanabara bay or Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.