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Trash pickers in Bantar Gebang dumpsite outside Jakarta Indonesia work in one of the biggest landfills in the world. Security guards say 100 trash pickers that work around the tractors have died over the course of the dumps lifetime. There are thousands of trash pickers, and the only material they were scavenging was plastic.

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Trash pickers in Bantar Gebang dumpsite outside Jakarta Indonesia work in one of the biggest landfills in the world. Security guards say 100 trash pickers that work around the tractors have died over the course of the dumps lifetime. There are thousands of trash pickers, and the only material they were scavenging was plastic.