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#6789728

8 June 2021

A scavenger carries used goods from his scavenged garbage at the Poi Panda landfill, Kawatuna, Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on June 8, 2021. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment said there were around 36.94 million tons of landfill in 2020 and 52, 95 percent or 19.56 million tons were handled with the 3R concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle), while the rest were not managed. Meanwhile, The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) Indonesia stated that Indonesia produces around 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, and 61 percent of it is not managed. NPAP Indonesia estimates that 620 thousand tons of plastic waste enter Indonesian waters in in 2017, and if there is no intervention, the number will increase by 30 percent in 2025 to 780 thousand tons per year.

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#6789736

8 June 2021

A scavenger looks for used goods in a pile of garbage at the Poi Panda landfill, Kawatuna, Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on June 8, 2021. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment said there were around 36.94 million tons of landfill in 2020 and 52, 95 percent or 19.56 million tons were handled with the 3R concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle), while the rest were not managed. Meanwhile, The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) Indonesia stated that Indonesia produces around 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, and 61 percent of it is not managed. NPAP Indonesia estimates that 620 thousand tons of plastic waste enter Indonesian waters in in 2017, and if there is no intervention, the number will increase by 30 percent in 2025 to 780 thousand tons per year.

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#6789744

8 June 2021

A scavenger looks for used goods in a pile of garbage at the Poi Panda landfill, Kawatuna, Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on June 8, 2021. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment said there were around 36.94 million tons of landfill in 2020 and 52, 95 percent or 19.56 million tons were handled with the 3R concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle), while the rest were not managed. Meanwhile, The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) Indonesia stated that Indonesia produces around 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, and 61 percent of it is not managed. NPAP Indonesia estimates that 620 thousand tons of plastic waste enter Indonesian waters in in 2017, and if there is no intervention, the number will increase by 30 percent in 2025 to 780 thousand tons per year.

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#6789748

8 June 2021

A scavenger looks for used goods in a pile of garbage at the Poi Panda landfill, Kawatuna, Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on June 8, 2021. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment said there were around 36.94 million tons of landfill in 2020 and 52, 95 percent or 19.56 million tons were handled with the 3R concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle), while the rest were not managed. Meanwhile, The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) Indonesia stated that Indonesia produces around 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, and 61 percent of it is not managed. NPAP Indonesia estimates that 620 thousand tons of plastic waste enter Indonesian waters in in 2017, and if there is no intervention, the number will increase by 30 percent in 2025 to 780 thousand tons per year.

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#6789752

8 June 2021

A scavenger carries used goods from his scavenged garbage at the Poi Panda landfill, Kawatuna, Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on June 8, 2021. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment said there were around 36.94 million tons of landfill in 2020 and 52, 95 percent or 19.56 million tons were handled with the 3R concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle), while the rest were not managed. Meanwhile, The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) Indonesia stated that Indonesia produces around 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, and 61 percent of it is not managed. NPAP Indonesia estimates that 620 thousand tons of plastic waste enter Indonesian waters in in 2017, and if there is no intervention, the number will increase by 30 percent in 2025 to 780 thousand tons per year.

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#6789768

8 June 2021

A scavenger carries used goods from his scavenged garbage at the Poi Panda landfill, Kawatuna, Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on June 8, 2021. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment said there were around 36.94 million tons of landfill in 2020 and 52, 95 percent or 19.56 million tons were handled with the 3R concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle), while the rest were not managed. Meanwhile, The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) Indonesia stated that Indonesia produces around 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, and 61 percent of it is not managed. NPAP Indonesia estimates that 620 thousand tons of plastic waste enter Indonesian waters in in 2017, and if there is no intervention, the number will increase by 30 percent in 2025 to 780 thousand tons per year.

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#5775282

11 June 2020

Laborer handles pieces of old tyre to recycle on a pile of tyres in Dhaka on June 11, 2020.

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#5775290

11 June 2020

A young laborer handles pieces of old tyre to recycle on a pile of tyres in Dhaka on June 11, 2020.

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#5775294

11 June 2020

A young laborer handles pieces of old tyre to recycle on a pile of tyres in Dhaka on June 11, 2020.

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#3581842

22 December 2018

A member of staff every morning takes out garbage from the Elephant Conservation Center territory, Sayaboury, Laos, in December 2018. Laos was known as ‘The land of a million elephants’ in the past, today the elephant population in the country stands at around 800 individuals. Half of them is made up of captive elephants, and their number is in decline; the owners are not interested in breeding animals (the cow needs at least four years out of work during her pregnancy and lactation), illegal trafficking to China and other neighboring countries continues. Against this backdrop, the Elephant Conservation Center is the only one organization in Laos who is interested in maintaining the population and breeding of elephants. They have the only elephant hospital and research laboratory in Laos. The Center was created in 2011, and now the team is protecting 29 elephants that had been working in the logging industry or mass tourism, and 530 hectares of forest around Nam Tien Lake in Sayaboury. ‘If we have extra money, we buy an elephant,’ says Anthony, the manager. The primary goal of the Center, besides conservation and breeding, is to reintroduce socially coherent groups of healthy elephants to a natural forest where they can contribute to the increase of the wild population. For this reason, a special socialization programme has been developed by the biologists, where domesticated elephants learn to communicate and survive in the wild under the supervision of specialists. ‘There are not enough elephants in Laos,’ says Chrisantha, the biologist of the center. ‘We need around 5000 of a species to sustain a population, and we are nowhere near that. The efforts we are making now at least give a bit of hope for the future.’ (

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#35350

8 November 2013

A woman covering her nose with a handkerchief walk past next to a graffiti about garbage collectors strike in the center of Madrid, Spain, on November 8, 2013. Street cleaners, trash collectors and public park gardeners working for Madrid city council started an open-ended strike on November 5, 2013, called by trade unions against layoffs and salary cuts. Madrid's municipal cleaning companies plan to axe around 1,000 jobs and cut wages by 40 percent. Photo: Alvaro Hurtado/NurPhoto

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