Nearly 2000 registered workers, including 600 children, earn their livings at the Stung Meanchey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. They are the among the up to 2% of the population in third world countries that The World Bank has estimated survive by recovering materials from waste.
I wrote about the Stung Meanchey dump and the conditions the people who work there have to endure while earning less than $2 USD per day. The story was published in Environment Magazine.
The story is also posted on Gaia Photos where you will find it here:
Cambodia: Poverty On Smokey Mountain
If you would like to publish this story please let me know.
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