The landfill (one of 4 for the region) was supposed to be closed 17 years ago when it was “full”. The city tried desperately to find alternative outlets for the ever-increasing amounts of trash from the growing population but they had no other place to put the waste that keeps accumulating daily, so they still dump it there. It’s “home” to ultra-poor families who pick through the garbage by hand for anything of value. It’s producing decomposition byproducts like methane and is constantly smoldering or actively on fire. It’s really, really bad.
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