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  • Woman walking past a pile of rubbish recycling bags lying on the street outside in Mayfair, London, UK.
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  • Rubbish and recycling bags left on the street in London, England, United Kingdom. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesnt always make the streets look clean.
    20190614_recycling_001.jpg
  • Immigrants recycling waste to make a little money in the area of Kolonaki, a chic and fashionable area. This is a common site in every corner of the capital as austerity measures make every cent count. The people clearing bins of recyclable waste are often Pakistani, Afghani or Somali. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • Immigrants recycling waste to make a little money in the area of Kolonaki, a chic and fashionable area. This is a common site in every corner of the capital as austerity measures make every cent count. The people clearing bins of recyclable waste are often Pakistani, Afghani or Somali. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
    20110921immigrants recycling wasteB.jpg
  • Immigrants recycling waste to make a little money in the area of Kolonaki, a chic and fashionable area. This is a common site in every corner of the capital as austerity measures make every cent count. The people clearing bins of recyclable waste are often Pakistani, Afghani or Somali. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
    20110921immigrants recycling wasteA.jpg
  • Rubbish and recycling bags left on the street in London, England, United Kingdom. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesnt always make the streets look clean.
    20190614_recycling_002.jpg
  • Side view of a recycling van amongst trees in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190509_recycling_001.jpg
  • Side view of a recycling van amongst trees in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190509_recycling_002.jpg
  • A detail of a tightly-bound bale of supermarket retail cardboard, ready for recycling and reprocessing in London, UK. Squashed together is the packaging of branded merchandise just removed from inside the nearby supermarket in London, UK. The materials will be taken to a central plant where they will be correctly recycled.
    recycling_cardboard02-30-11-2013_1.jpg
  • The contents of a transparent plastic recycling sack provided by Lambeth council. Bagged up and ready for collection, the sack is filled with the detritus and domestic rubbish from household waste - products with recyclable packaging.
    recycling_sack02-30-09-2013_1.jpg
  • The contents of a transparent plastic recycling sack provided by Lambeth council. Bagged up and ready for collection, the sack is filled with the detritus and domestic rubbish from household waste - products with recyclable packaging.
    recycling_sack01-30-09-2013_1.jpg
  • London, UK. Thursday 9th August 2012. London 2012 Olympic Games Park in Stratford. Recycling bins.
    20120809olympic recycling bins_A_1.jpg
  • Birmingham City Council recycling wheelie bins in Moseley in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
    20170516_recycling bins_002.jpg
  • Birmingham City Council recycling wheelie bins in Moseley in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
    20170516_recycling bins_001.jpg
  • Large council recycling bin in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20161018_recycling bin_002.jpg
  • Veolia Environmental Services rubbish bags piled up on a street corner in Whitechapel in London, United Kingdom. This waste is set for recycling.
    20150306_recycling bags_A.jpg
  • Instead of the intended newspapers and magazines, passers-by have instead stuffed coffee cups and general paper into a recycling bin slot in the City of London. The receptacle specifically states what should be inserted, but this has been ignored, its purpose disregarded for miscellaneous waste. On the top is also says that no tissues or cups are to be placed inside.
    recycling_bin02-18-01-2015_1.jpg
  • Large council recycling bin in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20161018_recycling bin_001.jpg
  • Street art graffiti of a bald head peeks over some red recycling bins in Digberth, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Digbeth is an area of Central Birmingham, England. Following the destruction of the Inner Ring Road, Digbeth is now considered a district within Birmingham City Centre. As part of the Big City Plan, Digbeth is undergoing a large redevelopment scheme that will regenerate the old industrial buildings into apartments, retail premises, offices and arts facilities. There is still however much industrial activity in the south of the area.
    20191005_digbeth birmingham_003.jpg
  • Women walking past a pile of rubbish recycling bags lying on the street outside in Mayfair, London, UK.
    20150415_mayfair rubbish_A.jpg
  • A modern refuse bin outside Bank Underground Station in London, United Kingdom.  The bin has separate sections for general waste and recycling.  The bin also has a digital screen which displays a message about the amount of recycling that Renew has achieved in London.
    UK-London-Technology-Trash-6117_1.jpg
  • Summertime in London, England, UK. Rubbish recycling bags left on the street in Mayfair. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesn't always make the streets look clean.
    20150704_summer city rubbish bags_D.jpg
  • Summertime in London, England, UK. Rubbish recycling bags left on the street in Mayfair. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesn't always make the streets look clean.
    20150704_summer city rubbish bags_C.jpg
  • Summertime in London, England, UK. Rubbish recycling bags left on the street in Mayfair. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesn't always make the streets look clean.
    20150704_summer city rubbish bags_B.jpg
  • Summertime in London, England, UK. Rubbish recycling bags left on the street in Mayfair. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesn't always make the streets look clean.
    20150704_summer city rubbish bags_A.jpg
  • Recycling bins overflowing with rubbish. Designed for businesses to recycle waste, these bins are now loaded with trash.
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  • Recycling bins overflowing with rubbish. Designed for businesses to recycle waste, these bins are now loaded with trash.
    20110116recycling binA.jpg
  • Recycling bins overflowing with rubbish. Designed for businesses to recycle waste, these bins are now loaded with trash.
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  • In a back south London garden (yard) we see a detail of a London borough of Lambeth council green waste recycling bag. This local authority once provided for free, up to three bags per household purely for the use of garden and plant material instead of it going to landfill. But in the era of government and economic cuts, this is one service now charged for in 2011. The stenciled lettering tells home owners that only organic waste should be put in before a fortnightly collection from the street outside.
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  • Recycling bins on a street in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Recycling contractor Snaga collects and separates waste Snaga collects waste in the area of the City of Ljubljana and nine municipalities in the vicinity. Bins are loacted around the capital for the following materials: Waste paper and carton, glass and packaging collection unit, and recently introduced packaging and paper bins at collection sites; biological waste in brown bins at collection sites, bulky waste free removal upon order, paid removal upon order collection centre; hazardous waste movable collection unit, collection unit at the Povsetova collection centre; waste electrical and electronic equipment collection centre, movable collection unit – for small items only and other waste black or grey bins at collection sites.
    slovenia-517-27-06-2018.jpg
  • Detail illustration of a sunbathing male on a mood board, packed on a lorry for recycling. The large board containing design imagery from a nearby store has been loaded onto a lorry for recycling out of the city. The male wears swimwear while reading a book, partially covered by bubble-wrap, in Soho, the old area of central London.
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  • Empty Amazon pacakging makes a mess put out as rubbish for recycling in Belgravia, London, United Kingdom.
    20190209_amazon packaging_001.jpg
  • Empty Amazon pacakging makes a mess put out as rubbish for recycling in Belgravia, London, United Kingdom.
    20190209_amazon packaging_002.jpg
  • Yellow house with blue door and blue recycling bags on front doorstep, London. The bright complimentary colours seem over saturatedon such a grey day in the capital. By coincidence, the blue council recycling bags matches the blue door in a scene of domestic colour and residential landscape.
    blue_door01-10-06-2015.jpg
  • A woman carries a bundle of collected cardboard to a recycling plant in Aberdeen Street. 7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it Hong Kong the most vertical city in the world.
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  • Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different coloured plastic bags. London, UK.
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  • Street cleaner with a fully laden rubbish cart with bags of waste in London, England, United Kingdom. Rubbish recycling bags collection of recyclable waste in the city.
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  • A young boy scavenges through a waste dump looking for anything plastic that he can sell for recycling, Bamako, Mali.
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  • An employee of an unidentified recycling company used by BAA (British Airports Authority) rakes through a mountain of glass bottles, piled high in a depsitory near Gatwick Airport, Sussex England. The drinks from these branded bottles have been consumed at airport terminal buildings and other BAA property and the man dressed in a fluorescent safety jacket scrapes the containers in readiness for transportation to another facility. The picture is an upright and with such a wide-angle view, we see the bottles stretching from the closest to the lens to the far end of the compartment in a mound of materials destined for a machine that will crush and transform them into new glass.
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  • Compost produced by one of the compost rockets at ELCRP food waste recycling project, Hackney, London.
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  • Traffic scene with a small vehicle carrying cardboard for recycling in Monastiraki. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • Traffic scene with a small vehicle carrying cardboard for recycling in Monastiraki. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
    20110920street scene monastiraki ath...jpg
  • Traffic scene with a small vehicle carrying cardboard for recycling in Monastiraki. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
    20110920street scene monastiraki ath...jpg
  • The detritus of a family Christmas awaits the next recycling collection by the local authority, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, Noth Somerset, UK.
    christmas-04-27-12-2018.jpg
  • Headline on the Evening Standard Newspaper reads Plastic Waste in reference to the environmental issue of the day which is in the news regularly with regard to the levels of plastic pollution in our oceans, recycling issues and the level of single use plastic in everyday life, London, England, United Kingdom.
    20180420_plastic waste_002.jpg
  • Headline on the Evening Standard Newspaper reads Plastic Waste in reference to the environmental issue of the day which is in the news regularly with regard to the levels of plastic pollution in our oceans, recycling issues and the level of single use plastic in everyday life, London, England, United Kingdom.
    20180420_plastic waste_001.jpg
  • Untypical overflowing rubbish and litter collects over bins and recycling receptacles in Bank Triangle in the City of London - the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 19th April 2018, in London, England.
    city_litter-13-19-04-2018.jpg
  • Untypical overflowing rubbish and litter collects over bins and recycling receptacles in Bank Triangle in the City of London - the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 19th April 2018, in London, England.
    city_litter-11-19-04-2018.jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_6.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling are the tails of various Air Force and National Guard of jet fighter aircraft, now junked in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_5.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_4.jpg
  • Household objects scrap metal await recycling on rural land, on 30th July 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    scrap_metal-01-30-07-2017.jpg
  • Three shop mannequins dressed in red, white and blue coloured clothing, stand in the window of recycling clothes charity Traid, on 4th July 2017, in Brixton, London, England.
    patriotic_window-02-04-07-2017.jpg
  • Office furniture and fixtures including four drawers of a filing cabinet with post-it note stickers saying they contain nothing, await collection and recycling, on 24th August 2016, City of London, UK. Brought to this convenient location in the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first Century, they will soon be removed by a contractor.
    empty_drawers-02-24-08-2016.jpg
  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Old Compton Street in Soho, London, England, United Kingdom.
    20160724_soho rubbish_A.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet. Manhandling the large board containing design imagery from the store, we see a young man holding the materials on to the side street before loading many items onto a lorry for recycling out of the city.
    clearance_men08-04-03-2015_1.jpg
  • A shoeless child wanders on to Eldoret’s main dump undeterred or unaware of  the constant  risk of cuts from broken glass and infection from needles dumped here by the hospital .<br />
<br />
Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret25_1.jpg
  • Alice (7) has her hair braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
    Eldoret19_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret18_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret08_1.jpg
  • Children play on site at the Dacheng metal recycling station, which its owner Zhang claims Pingxiang Special Steels still owes 350,000 RMB. Pingxiang Special Steels, which was shut down after its owner disappeared leavig millions in unpaid debt and wages, in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, China on 03 July 2013.
    QS130703Pingxiang023_1_1.jpg
  • Worker oerates at the Dacheng Metal Recycling Station, which its owner claims Pingxiang Special Steels still owes 350,000 RMB. Pingxiang Special Steels, which was shut down after its owner disappeared leaving millions in unpaid debt and wages, in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, China on 03 July 2013.
    QS130703Pingxiang020_1_1.jpg
  • Olusosum dump site, Lagos.  Goverment run by the agency Lagos Waste Management Authority ( LAWMA ). One of 6 sites taking in general waste from all over Lagos.  E-waste is not allowed on site, but some does appear from the gerneral waste  collected all over Lagos.  People, are making a living out of shifting through the rubbish and selling their collections for recycling.Some of the scavengers live on site, too poor to pay for accommodation any where else. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Olusosum dump site, Lagos.  Goverment run by the agency Lagos Waste Management Authority ( LAWMA ). One of 6 sites taking in general waste from all over Lagos.  E-waste is not allowed on site, but some does appear from the gerneral waste  collected all over Lagos.  People, are making a living out of shifting through the rubbish and selling their collections for recycling.Some of the scavengers live on site, too poor to pay for accommodation any where else. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Olusosum dump site, Lagos.  Goverment run by the agency Lagos Waste Management Authority ( LAWMA ). One of 6 sites taking in general waste from all over Lagos.  E-waste is not allowed on site, but some does appear from the gerneral waste  collected all over Lagos.  Scavengers,- people, are making a living out of shifting through the rubbish and selling their collections for recycling.Some of the scavengers live on site, too poor to pay for accommodation any where else. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Tehkhand Slum, Delhi , India.  Plastic bottles that a family have collected from the streets and rubbish tips to sell to local dealers.  Many slum dwellers earn a living from recycling old industrial waste and live well below the poverty-line.  Her whole family survives from this work.  This is very dangerous work and injuries are frequent.
    India-Slum-Dwelling-3900_1.jpg
  • Tehkhand Slum, Delhi , India.  A man sorts through the scrap metal he and his family have collected from the streets and rubbish tips to sell to local dealers.  Many slum dwellers earn a living from recycling old industrial waste and live well below the poverty-line.  His whole family survives from this work.  This is very dangerous work and injuries are frequent.
    India-Slum-Dwelling-3892_1.jpg
  • Prisoner working in the prisons recycling centre earn £12 per week. HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Downview Prison holds adult Sentenced Female prisoners and convicted and remanded female juveniles. The prison holds approximately 50% foreign nationals. Downview is divided into 4 Wings, A,B,C,D (D wing is a resettlement Wing), and the Juvenile Unit. All wings have single cell accommodation with in-cell electricity. The prison offers vocational training courses and NVQs for inmates. The resettlement wing provides opportunities for inmates to work and receive education outside the prison.
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  • Prisoner working in the prisons recycling centre earn £12 per week.
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  • Untypical overflowing rubbish and litter collects over bins and recycling receptacles in Bank Triangle in the City of London - the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 19th April 2018, in London, England.
    city_litter-18-19-04-2018.jpg
  • Untypical overflowing rubbish and litter collects over bins and recycling receptacles in Bank Triangle in the City of London - the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 19th April 2018, in London, England.
    city_litter-02-19-04-2018.jpg
  • Untypical overflowing rubbish and litter collects over bins and recycling receptacles in Bank Triangle in the City of London - the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 19th April 2018, in London, England.
    city_litter-06-19-04-2018.jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter as a fireman from the emergency services put out the small blaze in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter as a fireman from the emergency services put out the small blaze in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On investigation this fire turned out to be a man burning polystyrene behind a business, presumably to save on the hassle of recycling such a large volume.
    20171108_fire in jewellery quarter_0...jpg
  • Awaiting recycling are various remains of now-retired old aircraft, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_7.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling are the propellers of now-retired in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_2.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling are the undercariage and landing gear  of now-retired in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Household objects scrap metal await recycling on rural land, on 30th July 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    scrap_metal-06-30-07-2017.jpg
  • Despite a warning of CCTV, piles of fly-tipped cardboard have been dumped in a private Sainsburys car park and recycling centre, on 19th September 2016, in Dulwich, south London. Sainsburys here in Dulwich has a growing problem with fly-tipping rubbish despite security checks and CCTV present.
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  • Despite a warning of CCTV, piles of fly-tipped cardboard have been dumped in a private Sainsburys car park and recycling centre, on 19th September 2016, in Dulwich, south London. Sainsburys here in Dulwich has a growing problem with fly-tipping rubbish despite security checks and CCTV present.
    sainsburys_flytipping-01-19-09-2016.jpg
  • A workman pushes cardboard on a small trolley destined for recycling in Leadenhall Street, on 12th September, in the City of London, UK. All businesses in the City have a legal responsibility to ensure that they produce, store, transport and dispose of your business waste without harming the environment. This is called your Duty of Care DoC.
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  • Office furniture and fixtures including four drawers of a filing cabinet with post-it note stickers saying they contain nothing, await collection and recycling, on 24th August 2016, City of London, UK. Brought to this convenient location in the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first Century, they will soon be removed by a contractor.
    empty_drawers-03-24-08-2016.jpg
  • Office furniture and fixtures including four drawers of a filing cabinet with post-it note stickers saying they contain nothing, await collection and recycling, on 24th August 2016, City of London, UK. Brought to this convenient location in the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first Century, they will soon be removed by a contractor.
    empty_drawers-01-24-08-2016.jpg
  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Old Compton Street in Soho, London, England, United Kingdom.
    20160724_soho rubbish_C.jpg
  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Old Compton Street in Soho, London, England, United Kingdom.
    20160724_soho rubbish_B.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet. Manhandling the large board containing design imagery from the store, we see a young man loading the materials onto a lorry for recycling out of the city. While a person stands on an old red sofa, another  single gloved hand is seen holding another board.
    clearance_men09-04-03-2015_1.jpg
  • A shoeless child wanders on to Eldoret’s main dump undeterred or unaware of  the constant  risk of cuts from broken glass and infection from needles dumped here by the hospital . ( model release unavailable) <br />
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The Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret27_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • A woman collects rubbish for recycling at the dump; plastic, clothes, charcoal, metal even food for humans and livestock are all reclaimed for cash or personal use . <br />
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Making a living from the local dumps in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work here.  The average wage is around $1.5 a day. These pictures were taken with the help of charity Mary’s Meals who are hoping to break the cycle of poverty by providing free school meals.
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  • Alice ( 7)  has her hair  braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Worker oerates at the Dacheng Metal Recycling Station, which its owner claims Pingxiang Special Steels still owes 350,000 RMB. Pingxiang Special Steels, which was shut down after its owner disappeared leaving millions in unpaid debt and wages, in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, China on 03 July 2013.
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