Indonesia plan to cut landfill methane alters trash picker livelihoods
A waste picker drinks water from a plastic bag as she looks for recyclable items in a pile of garbage at the Bantargebang landfill on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, July 6. The Bantargebang landfill has paid for food and rent while helping her two teenage daughters living with a relative in a rural village. She hopes her daughters will never have to follow the same path.Living alone in a rented room near the landfill, Wencih earns about 200,000 rupiah ($12) on a good day collecting discarded toys, cardboard and plastic bottles before bulldozers bury them beneath fresh waste.
- ▪A waste picker drinks water from a plastic bag as she looks for recyclable items in a pile of garbage at the Bantargebang landfill on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, July 6.
- ▪The Bantargebang landfill has paid for food and rent while helping her two teenage daughters living with a relative in a rural village.
- ▪She hopes her daughters will never have to follow the same path.Living alone in a rented room near the landfill, Wencih earns about 200,000 rupiah ($12) on a good day collecting discarded toys, cardboard and plastic bottles before bulldozer
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A waste picker drinks water from a plastic bag as she looks for recyclable items in a pile of garbage at the Bantargebang landfill on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, July 6. AP-YonhapBANTARGEBANG, Indonesia — Long before dawn breaks over Indonesia ’s largest landfill, Nur Wencih joins thousands of waste pickers climbing mountains of garbage, searching for anything they can sell.The 35-year-old widow has worked at the site on Jakarta’s eastern edge for two decades, following her parents, who still earn a living there. The Bantargebang landfill has paid for food and rent while helping her two teenage daughters living with a relative in a rural village.
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