Saturday 2 June 2012

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Rio closes its massive garbage dump
Jun 2nd 2012, 16:24

A man works among rubbish at Jardim Gramacho, the biggest open air garbage dump in Latin America, on Friday just before it closed for good.One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, will close this weekend after 34 years in malodorous service.




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