Recycling rubbish on Smokey mountain, Manilla, Philippines
RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING, Philippines. Poor and indigenous people, old and young, some children, work in the infamous rubbish dump 'Smokey Mountain' outside Manilla. They recycle household and public waste, collecting and separating materials such as paper, corrugated cardboard, metal, plastics. Many suffer chronic skin and asthmatic diseases as a result of close contact with burning rubbish and chemicals.