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Waste In Brazil, Where Environmental Failure Meets Dire Poverty

A trash picker at the Gramacho Garden landfill, on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro
A trash picker at the Gramacho Garden landfill, on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro Weng Xinyang/Xinhua/ZUMA

Brazil has utterly failed to find an environmentally friendly response to waste disposal. The struggling economy makes change unlikely, meaning ever more garbage “pickers” making modest livings sifting through the dumps.

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