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city dump, Phnom-Phen, CambodiaMore of this series [link]
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Heart-wrenching. To think people actually have to do this EVERYDAY in order to get by.... It really makes us think how easy we have it....... It's admirable though that they're able to get up, get ready, go to work, pick through trash all day, come home, eat dinner, go to sleep, wake up, start again.
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in this case its a little different.
you must remember that they don't really go home. their houses are right there.
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Oh yes, I totally understand that! It's just also sad that there houses are right by it, so they can never get away from it.
Fantastic photo.
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I'm not ashamed to admit I take things out of the dump, I ran my truck on dump sourced tires for years!
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Horrifying. But inspiring. People should know about this; everyone should know and see this.
Very moving.
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It really makes me never wanna use another plastic bag again.
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The bright colors sporadically appearing throughout the trash makes this scene almost fun, but greatly contrasts with the sad content of this picture. Excellent work! The best pictures are those that speak to the viewer, and this has definitely tugged at my heart strings.
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I agree!
When I first looked at this photo, with a small thumbnail, I thought that this garbage dump was a flood of toys.
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Yeah I know! I thought this was a 'leftover Christmas Toys/decorations dump' from the thumbnail XD
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one who saw it that way!
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The contrast between the brightly coloured pieces of garbage and the bleakness of the actual situation is remarkable.
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This is a very nice photo. Though it is heartbreaking to see that is what has become of the environment. Those tires could be recycled, and there are pop cans and water bottles in there. Those are able to be recycled too. It's just.... so sad...
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Thank you for this. Everyone is always teasing me because I'm constantly ranting and raving about the poor all around the world and the situation they're in. They just don't understand! How can you look at this an not be moved to pity? I live in the United States and this sort of thing just doesn't happen here. It is ridiculous how insanely fortunate we are. And no one seems to care.
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Living. That is where they live.
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What stands out to me is just how colourful the garbage is. All those plastic bags need to be fancy and pretty while we use them for, what, an hour or two? And the rotten, stinky, go-back-to-the-earth garbage juxtaposed with the pretty, colourful, last-a-thousand-years garbage. It's terrible that these folks have to work in such a dangerous place as a dump, but I like the spirit that at least someone is making use of some of the waste.
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So sad but such an amazing image. Thank you for sharing!
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There are huge land fills in Niagara Falls NY that are disguised as "hills" but on a humid day they dont fool anyone :/
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Yeah, i definitely know what you mean. :/
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I thought this video would be similar to your photo... [link]
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i wish the goverment would work there for a couple months....
good pic btw!!
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Mexico of earth...
To make this picture more tragic you should try to saturate the colours to make it kind of sad
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That this is a place where people live, and this is what the world has become because of us.
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But it hasn't actually, it just looks like that in a picture.
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So the picture is photo-manipulated?...
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No, it's just an extremely tiny landfill that takes up almost no space. It's really not that much of a tragedy, some people just pretend it is because it lets them act like they're nicer people than they really are.
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You say that like you've been there.
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Which part of what I said implied that? Definitely not the part about the landfill being tiny, because it is, I've been to landfills 10 times bigger, they're all over America, Canada, South America, Mexico, wherever. If you want to know what landfills are really like, you should look up the Penn and Teller: Bullshit episode about recycling.
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I guess you are both right.
I would say that the main different between a landfill in the west and the one we see here.
is the the huge one that that you speak about, are usually far from all settlements and are very well monitored. the people who work there usually do it from the convenience of an air conditioned tractor.
wail what we see here, is definitely not a small landfill (its right outside he capital city) and the people that you see, live in the houses right at the edge of the hill. and for lack of an other option they bring their kids with them.
the place is constantly covered in smoke from the plastic burning that go's on, and I'm guessing that their yearly salary is less then what an american makes in one day.
some maybe you don't have to be sad.
but at list don't act as if its O.k.
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You said it like you knew for a fact how big the landfill was.
I don't think the point of the picture is that the one landfill is the only problem.
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Landfills aren't a problem, at all.
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Great picture!
Like Typhonn I perceive this image*) as quite a joyful one with all its bright colors and not sad at all.
*) Understand me right: This image and not the fact that we destroy our existence and that of many other species...
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They could make insulated coats out of plastic bags I have a how to guide, wait I think I see a good head of lettuce. This is sad really.
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