A cow eating waste outside the former Kartli Sanatorium building that now houses IDPs who fled the war in Abkhazia in 1993.

A chicken picks at piece of rubbish strewn along the wall of a school building in Yarentaro, a Waorani (Huaroni) community. Spanish oil company Repsol, which is engaged in oil extraction in the region...

Rubbish clogging the mouth of the Ciliwung River where it meets the sea in northern Jakarta. Its banks are lined with slum housing. The shed on the left houses livestock and is built directly onto the...

Rubbish clogging the mouth of the Ciliwung River where it meets the sea in northern Jakarta.

Rubbish clogging the mouth of the Ciliwung River where it meets the sea in northern Jakarta. Its banks are lined with slum housing built on stilts.

Uncollected rubbish burns in a street next to a billboard advertisement for the Apple iPad.

Rubbish strewn on the roadside in Matabeleng Village.

A boy collects recyclable items from among the piles of rubbish dumped along the banks of the Buriganga River. Everyday 1.5 million cubic metres of waste water from 7,000 industrial units in surroundi...

Rubbish lines the banks of the Buriganga River. Everyday 1.5 million cubic metres of waste water from 7,000 industrial units in the surrounding area, and another 0.5 million cubic metres from other so...

A man uses a tool to rake through a pile of rubbish as he searches for recyclable items.

A man uses a tool to rake through a pile of rubbish as he searches for recyclable items.

A bamboo bridge over a river that is clogged with rubbish.

Three men cross a bamboo bridge over a river that is clogged with rubbish.

A tannery worker stokes a fire in the factory's grounds.

People run from the rain as storm clouds gather overhead.