Rubbish and recycling waits for a collection in front of council housing where a rainbow, in support of the health service, is displayed in a window.

A worker walks through Aneka Plastic, a factory that recycles plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill site. The bags are washed and then manufactured into plastic pellets which are sold on....

The children of rubbish pickers and sorters attend a class at an informal school in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyclers and recycling businesses near the Bantar Gabang landfill site.

Workers sorting plastic bags at Aneka Plastic, a factory that recycles plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill site. The bags are washed and then manufactured into plastic pellets which are...

A worker gathers hand fulls of white plastic bags from a pile sorted by colour at Aneka Plastic, a factory that recycles plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill site. The bags are washed and...

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers, avoiding the diggers operating all around them, search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landf...

A man pulls a handcart full of household rubbish through the streets of Jakarta. Household waste is collected and dumped at a central point in each neighbourhood and then taken by a dump truck to the...

A woman in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyclers beside the Bantar Gebang landfill site, sorts plastic bottles that have been collected from what is one of the world's largest landfills.

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers rest at dusk before they continue to search into the night for recyclable plastic and other items amongst the freshly dumped loads of waste, brought in from Jakarta, at the Bantar Gaba...

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

A buyer (left) weighs sacks of recyclable plastics and other items collected by rubbish pickers from among the piles of waste at the Bantar Gabang landfill site.

Rain pours on to a queue of trucks, part of a constant stream bringing rubbish from Jakarta to the giant Bantar Gabang landfill. Rubbish pickers search the site night and day for recyclable plastic an...