Trash - Dumpsites around the world
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Cambodia
The Takhmao dumpsite is located in the Kandal Province of Cambodia. You will find images of the dump in ‘Galleries’ at the bottom of the page.
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The UK charity, Small Steps Project, provides emergency aid, shoes and food to people living on the dumpsite near Siem Reap. They also provide support to help children into education and adults into employment. You will find images of the dumpsite here.
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Cambodia: Children scavenge at Anlong Pi rubbish dump near Angkor Wat in Siem Reap
Tourists from all over the world flock to Siem Reap in Cambodia to photograph famous ancient sites while 30kms away people struggle to survive living on a dumpsite.
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The photos that will break your heart
Photos of the Anlong Pi Dumpsite outside the tourist town of Siem Reap
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Helping Siem Reap's rubbish dump families
A description of life on the Anlong Pi Dumpsite near Siem Reap and the efforts of the Volunteer Development Children's Association to help the families.
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Life in a Cambodian rubbish dump / ABC News
Spanish photojournalist Omar Havana spent seven months from October 2010 to April 2011 getting to know the people at the dump and documenting their lives.
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Dumped
The Sareka video about life on the Sihanoukville city dump and the rescue of 20 children now living in the Sareka House shelter.
Philippines
Life on the rubbish dumps of Paranaque
An article in the Daily Mail on how Filipino children and adults risk their lives searching through waste for materials that can be recycled.
Indonesia
Indonesia's garbage pickers risk lives to earn a living
The garbage of 10 million people living in Jakarta is dumped into the Bantar Gebang dumpsite.
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As garbage mountains rise, Indonesian capital faces waste crisis
Towering mountains of trash at the Bantar Gebang dumpsite, in the city of Bekasi, have risen skyward as Jakarta grows bigger and wealthier.
Kenya
Meet the kids scavenging on rubbish dumps to survive
Stories and images of people living on the Mwakirunge dumpsite just outside Mombasa in Kenya.
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Mwakirunge is one of the official dump sites for Mombasa waste.
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A description of what it’s like to live on the Mwakirunge dumpsite.
Sierra Leone
Meet the kids scavenging on rubbish dumps to survive
Scroll down the page to read about life on the King Tom Bommah dumpsite in the middle of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone.
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Laos
​Km 36 rubbish dump is located about 30 kilometres outside the capitol city of Vientiane in Laos.
Romania
Pata Rat is a dumpsite in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania in Northern Romania
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Many Roma have been forcibly evicted and moved to slums in northern Transylvania.
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Here you will find photos of the Roma people who live and work on the dumpsite.
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