Boys sort through electrical cables at a burning site at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

A boy carries electrical cables to a burning site at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-wa...

Monitor casings and other plastics burn along the edge of Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

Monitor casings and other plastics burn along the edge of Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

A boy burns cables from computers and other electronic equipment in order to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over t...

Plastic from e-waste is piled high at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here...

A boy holds an old laptop at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here every mo...

A woman sells packets of water as people burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electro...

Men and children burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over...

Goats graze around the Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here every month. I...

Boys burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment in order to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the...

A dedicated rubbish truck dumps discarded Christmas trees collected from the streets of Geneva. The trees are transferred to a site for burning with other combustible rubbish. Throughout January sever...

A dedicated rubbish truck dumps discarded Christmas trees collected from the streets of Geneva. The trees are transferred to a site for burning with other combustible rubbish. Throughout January sever...

A boy stands on a rubbish heap in the Ebola hit slum neighbourhood of West Point.

Rubbish clogs a riverbed running through Mutsamudu.

A fisherman and former people smuggler, on the rubbish-covered beach.

A fisherman and former people smuggler, on the rubbish-covered beach.

Rubbish clogs a riverbed running through Mutsamudu.

Rubbish and 'kwassa kwassa' (fast fishing boats) on a beach.

Industrial waste (glass fibre) that has been buried in the ground on hills surrounding Dilovasi where animals graze.

Chickens scavenge from waste in a rubbish bin in the town centre.

A 'no littering' warning sign.

Abandoned vehicle tyres pollute the industrial landscape.

An Indian woman seling handicrafts to tourists who are attracted by a collection of discarded steam locomotives that were once used to transport minerals excavated locally. They have fallen into disus...

Discarded steam locamotives once used to transport minerals excavated locally. They have fallen into disuse since the arrival of diesel trains but are now a tourist attraction.

Waste on an industrial site in Dilovasi.

A journalist shows the contaminated ground where where tonnes of glass wool were dumped in the early 1980s.

A Kurdish boy carrying a sack of rubbish for recycling in the Kurdish district of Sheikh Maksud.

A monk carries rubbish down from their quarters in Mont Saint Michel.

Lili makes a protest about rubbish during Extinction Rebellion protests in Trafalgar Square.

A humorous poster that encourages local residents not to litter is posted in English, French and the traditional Inuit language of Inuktitut, at the Arctic Winter Games Arena.

A man stamps down rubbish in a container in front of the Civil Registry Office Central Wedding.

Debris washed up on the beaches of Schiermonnikoog, after 281 containers fell from the MSC Zoe cargo ship in a storm on 2 January 2019. Volunteers, both locals and tourists, helped to clean up the mes...

A truck dumps waste at a rubbish dump near Denpasar.

Eric 'Mr Touchman' Karanja (38) taking a break from scavenging work on the 300 acre Dandora dumpsite next to his home in the Gitari Marigu slum.

Eric 'Mr Touchman' Karanja (38) taking a break from scavenging work on the 300 acre Dandora dumpsite next to his home in the Gitari Marigu slum.

A man stands among piles of rubbish in a landfill site near Thimpu, the capital. Thimphu's only designated landfill site reached capacity in 2002, leading to a great deal of illegal dumping.

Children scavange at a landfill site east of Freetown where rubbish is burning.

A boy stands on a rock in a rubbish dump and watches his friends play in the water. Although Ebeye's residents make a lot of efforts to keep their island clean, due the luck of regular collections, wa...

People play dominos beside a rubbish strewn body of water in Cite Soleil.

Vultures gather to scavenge anything tuened up as young men and children search a dump for anything they can sell.

A man searches among the detritus on a rubbiush dump for items he can recycle.

A view of a rubbish dump with a power station in Obilic in the background. The power station burn lignite, and even with the installation of new filters, produces pollution many times over EU safety l...

A view of a rubbish dump with a power station in Obilic in the background. The power station burn lignite, and even with the installation of new filters, produces pollution many times over EU safety l...

A young man looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A man walking beneath an umbrella looking for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Workers spread out rubbish at a huge dump after it was unloaded from a truck. Dhaka alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Workers spread out rubbish at a huge dump after it was unloaded from a truck. Dhaka alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Workers spread out rubbish at a huge dump after it was unloaded from a truck. Dhaka alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A woman looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A woman looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A man walking beneath an umbrella looking for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A man paddles his boat past a huge riverside rubbish dump. Dhaka alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A young woman passes a bulldozer as she looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Workers spread out rubbish at a huge dump after it was unloaded from a truck. Dhaka alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Women and children look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A man standing on top of a garbage truck delivering rubbish to a dump while another worker waits to unload it. Dhaka alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A girl look for recyclable material, to sell at a market, at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Children look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Women and children look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A girl look for recyclable material, to sell at a market, at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Women and children look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A girl look for recyclable material, to sell at a market, at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A girl look for recyclable material, to sell at a market, at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A boy looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A boy looks for recyclable material next to an earth mover at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A boy looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A young man looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Birds fly over women look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

Women and children look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A man and a boy look for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A man looks for recyclable material at the biggest rubbish dump in Dhaka. The city alone generates about 3500 to 4000 metric tons of solid waste each day.

A boy picks through a pile of rubbish searching for recyclable materials in the Korail Slum.

A boy holds a label of a pair of Levi Strauss jeans at the Ha Tsosane rubbish dump in Maseru. Major western garment companies including GAP and Levis have set up manufacturing plants in Lesotho. They...

Two boys walk hand-in-hand across a rubbish strewn field in the 'Washington D.C.' IDP camp outside Garowe, a town in the self-declared autonomous state of Puntland. The IDP camp on the other side of t...

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.