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  • Rubbish bags left outside a sandwich shop on a street corner in Highgate on 9th June 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In this area of Birmingham, there is a huge problem with the lack of rubbish collection and litter cleaning by Birmingham City Council which local people say do not collect the waste from small businesses anywhere nearly regularly enough.
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  • Blue general waste rubbish bags on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesnt always make the streets look clean.
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  • Rubbish is dumped on the street in Wapping on 26th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Waste left on the street is one of the main causes of litter in the UK.
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  • Rubbish is dumped on the street in Wapping on 26th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Waste left on the street is one of the main causes of litter in the UK.
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  • Blue general waste rubbish bags on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesnt always make the streets look clean.
    20190821_rubbish bags_002.jpg
  • Bags of domestic rubbish seen next to a litter bin on a street in Tower Hamlets, east London, England on December 21, 2018.
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  • Rubbish left on the street in the West End in London, United Kingdom. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesnt always make the streets look clean.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • Blue general waste rubbish bags on Fenchurch Street in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. Collection of recyclable waste is the city is important business, while doesnt always make the streets look clean.
    20190821_rubbish bags_001.jpg
  • Days after the arrrest of Julian Assange in Knightsbridge, assorted rubbish is still piled up at the rear of the Ecuadorian embassy, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • Urban pigeons gather near a pile of rubbish that awaits collection, on 17th January 2018 in Westminster, London, England.
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  • Woman out shopping with  Primark bag passes rubbish on The Strand in London, UK. The trash looks like waste from one of the local businesses yet, in the West End of London, this is an ugly scene.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
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  • Rubbish piled high on the street in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Days after the arrrest of Julian Assange in Knightsbridge, assorted rubbish is still piled up at the rear of the Ecuadorian embassy, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    assange_rubbish-03-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Days after the arrrest of Julian Assange in Knightsbridge, assorted rubbish is still piled up at the rear of the Ecuadorian embassy, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    assange_rubbish-04-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Rubbish bags piled high on Petticoat Lane Market awaiting collection in London, England, United Kingdom. This unsightly load of trash mainly from local businesses makes for an ugly sight.
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  • Rubbish bin in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
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  • A Dont Dump sign on a wall above discarded street rubbish, on 11th January 2017, in London, England. Nearly half the population 48 per cent admit to dropping litter and 30 million tonnes of litter are collected in the UK every year at a cost of £1bn but a Mori poll in July 2007 found the public more concerned about litter and graffiti than they were about climate change.
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  • Overflowing McDonalds rubbish bin in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Piles of rubbish bags awaiting collection by council refuse collectors in central London. As a mimic to the retail design in the background, we see the bags as a pile of contained shapes in Long Acre in London's Covent Garden. The refuse of emptied local litter bins by street sweepers, they are destined for recycling or landfill - the waste of modern city and developed western society, happy to offload its waste to unknown places.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_E.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_C.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_B.jpg
  • Two rubbish trucks collecting general waste drive side by side along The Strand in central London, United Kingdom.
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  • Days after the arrrest of Julian Assange in Knightsbridge, assorted rubbish is still piled up at the rear of the Ecuadorian embassy, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    assange_rubbish-01-15-04-2019.jpg
  • Rubbish bags piled high on Petticoat Lane Market awaiting collection in London, England, United Kingdom. This unsightly load of trash mainly from local businesses makes for an ugly sight.
    20180418_rubbish_001.jpg
  • Shopping trolleys and other rubbish which has been lifted out of the Lea Navigational Canal in East London, UK. Trash and detritus thrown into the city canals is a constant problem that has to be cleared.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_G.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_F.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_D.jpg
  • Women walking past a pile of rubbish recycling bags lying on the street outside in Mayfair, London, UK.
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  • Coffee cups make up the majority of the contents of a street rubbish bin in central London.
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  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Old Compton Street in Soho, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Coffee cups make up the majority of the contents of a street rubbish bin in central London.
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  • Flat clearance rubbish dumped outside a house in Kings Heath on 27th February 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Old Compton Street in Soho, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Mural outside a burger restaurant in East London, UK. Unfortunately positioned by a pile of rubbish bags.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter opposite the Houses of Parliament, central London. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London. Tourists gather her to take pictures. The result of so may people is plain to see.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter on Regent Street, central London. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London. People out shopping walk past and their reaction is plain to see.
    23042011litter rubbish trashB.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter on Regent Street, central London. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London. People out shopping walk past and their reaction is plain to see.
    23042011litter rubbish trashA.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
  • Overflowing bin and litter opposite the Houses of Parliament, central London. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London. Tourists gather her to take pictures. The result of so may people is plain to see.
    25042011litter rubbish trashD.jpg
  • A woman washes her clothes on her balcony in Dandora, meters away from mountains of rubbish. Dandora slum only a couple of kilometres from the centre of Nairobi, Dandora holds the biggest rubbish dump in Sub-Saharan Africa with 1,500 tons of rubbish dumped daily. Amongst the rubbish, thousands of slum dwellers search for scraps of food and re-useable rubbish.
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  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School.<br />
She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals.<br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish 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 at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School. She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals. Making a living from collecting rubbish 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 at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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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 dumped armchair and other domestic rubbish, fly-tipped on a street corner in south London. Abandoned on the pavement, the items have made a mess in this urban location. Furniture and household possessions have been added, perhaps by others, making this area look and feel intimidating. increase in amount of rubbish illegally dumped on roadsides and back alleys cost local authorities £45m in 2014. The figures also reveal the rising cost to the public purse of cleaning up and prosecuting people who dump rubbish, with the clearance bill for local authorities rising 24% to £45.2m.
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  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Disguised leaf patterned rubbish bins awaiting collection 13th Sept 2006, Highgate, North London United Kingdom. Rubbish is collected free as part of the house taxation and is divided into either recyclable or for land fill, but the bins are often seen as unsightly, so here are camouflaged.
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  • Man taking rubbish on a trolly to the recycling centre on 20th September 2019 in the neighbourhood of Grunerlokka, Oslo, Norway, an area full of colourful street art and markets. Norway is importing as much rubbish as it can get its hands on, in an effort to generate more energy by burning waste in vast incinerators, with 71% of the population supporting the renewable energy source.
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  • Sarah Wanjiru, 10yrs with mother Jane Wajira , and Jane’s grandchild pose for pictures next a small tip where they have been picking rubbish to make some money. They recycle mainly plastic; on average they can make up to 150-200 Ksh a day ( $1-2). The dump here is smaller with less pickings but safer than the main dump in Eldoret. <br />
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Jane had her first baby when she was as young as 12-13; she now has four children which she cares for her self . Her husband was killed in the Kenyan riots of 2007/8. Her 10-year-old daughter Sarah comes to help her sort rubbish when she’s not at school. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools.
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  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Fly tipping rubbish site just off The Highway beside a construction site for new stunning offices in East London on 24th February 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Sarah, at Atnas Kandie Primary School. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools. Thanks to the charity Marys Meals she also gets school meal, hugely important when Sarah’s mother is so poor they are often made homeless while saving for the rent. When she is not at school she works on the dumps collecting rubbish for the family to survive. <br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish 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 at the dump.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • David ( 58) photographed at the hostel of a friend he collects rubbish with. David was forced to make his living from the dumps following the Violence of the 2007/8 Kenyan elections . He lost his property when it was burned down and his living ( he had cows and would sell milk)  . He is a member of the Kikyu tribe who were targeted. Over a thousand people were killed and many maimed or injured, many from this area. He has a daughter in grade 2 he has to feed who is at school.<br />
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“They looted in everything in my home and set fire to it” he says.  He was in refugee camp for one year before a relative offered him a place to stay in. “I use to make a living at the big dump but I don’t like it the people there are rude and dangerous, they get high and mug people, beat them up - now I collect the rubbish at my local dump and nearby”
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  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200415_fly tipping_004.jpg
  • An old man pushes a cart loaded with rubbish bags through the streets of Central, the business district of Hong Kong. Many old people have to work as rubbish collectors to survive.  Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres along side London and New York, it has one of the highest income per capita in the world as well the moste severe income inequality amongst advanced economies.  7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it Hong Kong the most vertical city in the world.
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  • Florence Khalumbia (46) With daughter Alice (7 ) 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. Alice, the youngest, is seven years old, and she spends her days sorting through rubbish with her 14-year-old brother Allan Karani. 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    Eldoret04_1.jpg
  • Sarah Wanjiru, 10yrs with mother Jane Wajira , and Jane’s grandchild pose for pictures next a small tip where they have been picking rubbish to make some money. They recycle mainly plastic; on average they can make up to 150-200 Ksh a day ( $1-2). The dump here is smaller with less pickings but safer than the main dump in Eldoret. <br />
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Jane had her first baby when she was as young as 12-13; she now has four children which she cares for her self . Her husband was killed in the Kenyan riots of 2007/8. Her 10-year-old daughter Sarah comes to help her sort rubbish when she’s not at school. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools.
    Eldoret03_1.jpg
  • A landscape in a London street of street rubbish (garbage) left below a Stella Artois alcohol billboard. A chic man and woman from the sixties (1960s) stand with all the confidence of the style of a previous era with a landscape of the Mediterranean with its azure blue waters. But the reality of 2011 south London is a far removed from the utopia on the ad. Fly tipping has added to the already untidy pavement (sidewalk) also blocking pedestrian access. Wheelie bins and plastic bags of rubbish attract vermin and poor hygiene and the council workmen will soon appear to once again clear away the mess - before another pile appears.
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  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
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  • Rubbish bins parked in the highly fashionable Jermyn Street on 19th October 2019 in Londons West End. They are camouflaged with bricks to blend in with the brick wall behind.
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  • Plastic and glass bottles and other detritus on a rubbish dump in Mexico city, Mexico
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  • A girl selling drinks on the site chats to boys working on the rubbish dump. 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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  • Fly tipped waste on the street in a housing estate in Highgate close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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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.
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  • Britain is Broken - General Election Now demonstration against Tory cuts and austerity on 12th January 2019 in London, United Kingdom. Irrespective of which way people voted in the EU referendum, this protest was calling for an end to austerity and homelessness, the nationalisation of rail and other utilities, and ultimately, for a general election to end the Tories power. Placard in the rubbish bin.
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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.
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  • Alice Khanali (19 ) with Friend Fatila (13) photographed at the school they once both attended. Alice turned to collecting rubbish after she became pregnant and dropped out of school . <br />
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She goes to the dump with Fatila who also lives with her and her dad ( her baby is looked after by relatives) . She helps to protect Fatila from some of the boys at the dump – they ask her to sell Fatila to them but she doesn’t allow them near her. The two girls take care of each other, Fatila says that Alice gives her advice about sex and boys, warning her not to end up in the same situation.
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  • Rubbish litter pollution on Botafogo beach near the marina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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  • A boy uses a polystyrene pack as a drum as he and his friend scavenge for rubbish to sell. Shadipur Depot. Shadipur Depot, New Delhi, India<br />
The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth.
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  • Blue refuse bags have been left at the foot of a matching blue brick wall. In this side street of a south London suburb, we see the garbage lying on the pavement (sidewalk) surrounded by autumnal maple leaves. The wall in the background has been roughly painted, the bricks starting to crack. But the picture is about the similar colours of the wall to the Southwark borough council bags that are provided free for residents wishing to dispose of green garden waste only. If you live in a house or flat at street level you will have a blue box and bag for your recycling. In most cases, if you have a green rubbish bin you will also be able to use a blue box and bag.
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  • Recycling bins overflowing with rubbish. Designed for businesses to recycle waste, these bins are now loaded with trash.
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  • Rubbish bags piled high awaiting collection in central London. This unsightly load of trash mainly from local businesses makes for an ugly sight in an area of London very populated by tourists.
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  • Litter on the street in Notting Hill, West London. Made famous from the movie of the same name. Rubbish / trash from major high street chain Starbucks etc.
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  • Fly tipped waste on the street on an industrial estate in Deritend close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Old sofa dumped at a main road in Kings Heath on 16th November 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Old sofa dumped at a main road in Kings Heath on 16th November 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201116_fly tipping_002.jpg
  • A rickshaw rider holds his nose as he passes an overflowing rubbish bin at night near the Moghbazar Mouchak Flyover in the Tejgaon industrial area on the 23rd of September 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Rubbish left by a bus stop at the end of lockdown on 15th June in Southampton Row, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Rubbish left by a bus stop at the end of lockdown on 15th June 2020 in Southampton Row, London, United Kingdom.
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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.
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  • Rubbish dumped on the street on Brick Lane in London, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
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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.
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  • A cycle lane is partially blocked by an overspill of rubbish and litter, covering the bike stencil, on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
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  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
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  • Caution Wet Floor warning cone on a rubbish bin at Guy's Hospital in Southwark, London, UK.
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  • Sarah Nasimiyu is 45 years old and is pictured with her two-year-old Joshua. She has four other children ranging in age from three to thirteen years old. They all work on the dumpsite. She separated from her husband in 2008 because he was always drunk and couldn’t be responsible. She brings Joshua with her to the dumpsite – where she sorts through rubbish in the morning and then sells snacks to the other workers in the afternoon. The Mothers who work on Eldoret’s main dump nick named by the locals,  ironically, as ‘California’ raise their children in Extreme poverty. The consequences for these children and their parents are tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Rubbish litter pollution on Botafogo beach near the marina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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  • Buddhi-Lala and Roshan sort rubbish into piles to sell on the pavement where they live, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, India.
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