Smack in the middle of spectacular rolling hills over the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras sits a vast sea of trash and waste scoured over daily by vultures, dogs and thousands of people. It’s called El Cremetorio, and a frightening number of those hunting for cardboard and plastic here are just kids, long since dropped out of school to help support their families full time.
If lucky they might collect $5 worth of recyclable garbage in 14 hour day, and from that they must pay a “war tax” to the local street gang, a fee for the privilege of doing business in the dump. One 14 year old told us, “If you fail to pay today, you’ll be dead by tomorrow.”
Image and caption by Brent Renaud. Honduras, 2015.
13 julho 2015
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