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.

Workers at a small scale recycling business in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyclers and recycling businesses near Bantar Gabang, one of the world's largest landfill sites, sort plastic bottles that h...

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...

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.

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 rubbish brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

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

Sukron (left), a plastic rubbish trader sits on the scales he uses to weigh sorted and picked plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill that he sells on to plastic recycling factories in Ciket...

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 stands on top of a pile of sacks of recycled items at the Bantar Gabang landfill. A constant flow of trucks brings fresh loads of rubbish from Jakarta to the site where rubbish pickers descend o...

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

Marni (32), who works as rubbish sorter, eats dinner while her husband Durah (37), who picks rubbish from the Bantar Gebang landfill site, sits outside their shack in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyc...

Parents and children rest after lunch at a makeshift kindergarten for children of rubbish pickers and sorters living in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyclers and recycling businesses near the Bantar G...