South America's largest Garbage Dump to close - Rio de Janeiro
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.
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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.
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- date:19 April 2012
- dimensions:13.33 x 10.00 in. (4000 x 3000 px)
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- file size in memory:36.39 MB
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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.
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- id:1173821
- date:19 April 2012
- dimensions:13.33 x 10.00 in. (4000 x 3000 px)
- dpi:300dpi
- file size in memory:36.39 MB
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