Landfills and Pollution

Images of polluted landscapes featuring trash mountains and illegal dumps. The overwhelming presence of plastic and waste highlights severe environmental issues.

Bali, Indonesia. It is common to see families living, and children playing, in dangerously unsanitary illegal trash dumps. Illness is rampant and life expectancy very low under these conditions.

San Bernadino National Forest

Heal the bay Clean up at Venice Beach, About 400 Students and Volunteers help with the Monthly Clean-up, California

Katrina - General - 26-HK-403-45. Hurricane Katrina

Kyiv, Ukraine - January 24 2014: Bottles with Molotov cocktails next to barricades on the Hrushevsky street during anti-government Euromaidan protest

Poor and impoverished slums of Dharavi in the city of Mumbai. Poor and impoverished slums of Dharavi in the city of Mumbai Copyright: xZoonar.com/MikhailxDavidovichx 16641765

Couple of hikers walking across landfill, large pile of waste, environmental concept and eco activism. Man with gas mask holding potted plant on landfill standing on landfill, large pile of waste, environmental concept and eco activism. model released

Discharge of garbage smoldering in Montenegro

Ecuador, Guayas Province, Guayaquil , The City Rubbish Tip With A Woman Searching For Items To Recycle Amongst Waste Surrounded By Black Vulture Birds Scavenging.

Italy, Sicily, Agrigento, garbage dump

Life jackets of refugees at the garbage dump near Molivos, Lesbos, Greece, Europe

Pine Island, FL, USA--10/24/2022--A collection site for debris from Hurricane Ian has been set up on Pine Island. The site is where certified contractors are placing debris.Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Rubbish on Beach on Gatahan Island

Net in the shape of a Fish full of Plastic Containers and Plastic Waste with extra plastic spilling out, Praia de Santa Maria Beach, Santa Maria, Sal, Cape Verde Islands, Atlantic, Africa

Havana, Cuba, Two large urban garbage bins are overflowing with refuse.

Polluted water of Baltimore Harbor, MD.

Wild garbage dump in front of the mouth of the Markarfljot River with a single mountain, southwest of Iceland, Europe

Liberian boy fishing in sewage water in Monrovia, Liberia.

Waste spread on a street in Varanasi India

Violent protest burning garbage on road Bandra Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India 21-October-2008 India Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

Candles on the rubble of a residential building commemorate residents who lost their lives there, flood disaster, ALtenahr, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

Young girl holding planet Earth model, globe, standing standing on landfill, large pile of waste, nature pollution environmental concept and eco activism. Young girl holding planet Earth model, globe, standing standing on landfill, large pile of waste, nature pollution environmental concept and eco activism. Greta lookalike. model released

One of the children who live, play and work on the garbage dump at Bhagmati River in the middle of the city, Kathmandu, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal, Asia

Madrid, 06/03/2016. Report on Operation Chamartín. In the image, views of a shanty town. Photo: Maya Balanya ARCHDC.

Pollution along the coast of the Lake Nicaragua (a.k.a. Lake Cocibolca), the world's twentieth largest lake.

Big pipes carrying water to South Mumbai passes through Dharavi draped in smog ; Bombay Mumbai ; Maharashtra ; India

Waste on the sidewalk of the new town of Lijiang

Waste thrown on ground in Ndayane, Senegal.

Garbage collectors walk in the landfill looking for materials to recyc

Russian driftwood and fishing debris washed ashore on an Icelandic beach

Plastic pollution along the coast near Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Mali, Bamako, View Over The City Across A Rubbish Tip And River Niger With People Scavenging Amongst The Waste.

Electronic waste ready for recycling, Pile of used electronic and housewares waste division broken or damage garbage recycling

Wild rubbish dump in Africa, Banjul, in Gambia, 16.06.2021., Banjul, Gambia, Africa

Italy, campania, naples, deterioration of the environment, 70's

Bali, Indonesia. Cows scavenge waste at an illegal trash dump

Molins, district of Orihuela (Alicante), 09/19/2019. Consequences of the cold drop that caused enormous damage in the Spanish east. Photography: Rober Solsona, archdc.

Garbage bags and other garbage are illegally dumped on a deserted beach in front of a small village in southern Europe Garbage bags and other garbage are illegally dumped on a deserted beach in front of a small village in southern Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/UlrikexLeonex 22297305

Pollution in Dunche, Nepal. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

MEXICO CITY. SANTA FE refuse dump. Children and their parents work all day sifting rubbish for items to sell and scraps to eat. .

Aerial view of a vast landfill site with trucks navigating through the waste, creating a stark contrast between the vehicles and the surrounding garbage, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

Dump on the outskirts of Phnom Penh in Cambodia

Tourists collect plastic rubbish on a remote beach in Northern Svalbard, only about 600 miles from the North Pole. The plastic has been washed ashore by ocean currents.

Recycler man in the streets of Klong Toey amid the waste

Businessman standing on landfill, large pile of waste. Consumerism versus pollution concept. Corporate social responsiblity in business. Fashionable modern businessman standing on landfill, large pile of waste. Consumerism versus pollution concept. Corporate social responsiblity in business. model released

050101-D-0000B-077. Base: Banda Aceh State: Sumatra Country: Indonesia (IDN)

The Coast Guard helps pick up trash at the International Ocean Conservancy beach clean up at Manila Bay, Philippines.

Truck dumping refuse into landfill

Garbage Dump in Massif des Maures, Var in the South East of France

Katrina - General - 26-HK-403-129. Hurricane Katrina

Aerial shot, waterfront scrap-heap pile of plastic rubbish Aerial shot view waterfront scrap-heap pile plastic bottles rubbish outdoor. Pollution debris on lakeshore. Global damage, environmental pollution concept. Costa Blanca. Guardamar del Segura. Spain ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/AleksandrsxTihonovsx 18068837 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Scavengers at Tanza #1 Landfill site; Tanza, Antipolo, metro-Manila, Philippines.

Sultanate of Oman, East Coast, Indian ocean, a huge amount of multicolored plastic garbage is abandonned on a wild beach

Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi, Miss., September 3 and November 3, 2005 -- Before (left) and after beginning the process of cleaning up Biloxi beach. Huge amounts of debris was left on the beach by Hurricane Katrina.

Waste at disposal site Riederberg, Woergl, Tyrole, Austria, Europe

Garbage, collectors and men with trash, waste management and rubbish with routine and service. Street, employees and group with teamwork and recycling with pollution and cleaning with mess or uniform

Symboluto, many empty cans, partially crushed, rusting, dirty, lying on the beach, waste

Waste disposal site in Aasiaat, Greenland with old pipes

Mayflower, AR, May 17, 2014 - Team Rubicon volunteers remove debris from a home and property on Plantation Drive after the home was destroyed by a tornado on April 27. FEMA supports Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) as they help survivors recover from natural disasters. Arkansas Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Delivery of old shoes for the inmates of Camp Moria, Lesbos, Greece, Europe

#PYRAMIDE2CHAUSSURES. Handicap International organized a pyramid of shoes on the Republic Square in Paris to protest against the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.#PYRAMIDE2CHAUSSURES. Handicap International a organisé une pyramide de chaussures sur la Place de la République à Paris pour protestercontre l'utilisation des armes explosives en zones peuplées.

Leftover plastic waste in nature, party waste in the landscape, Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Activist holding placard, protest sign, standing on landfill, large pile of waste on sea shoreline, environmental concept and eco activism. Woman activist holding placard, protest sign, standing on landfill, large pile of waste on sea beach, shoreline, environmental concept and eco activism. model released

Collective washing in a river at Sao Tome Island, Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Africa

Will separation in the Caribbean waste separation in the Caribbean

Electronics recycling in Karachi, Pakistan

Rubbish at garbage dump and icebergs at the fishing village Uummannaq, Greenland, North America

View of a towering sculpture of a monster made of plastic looming over a blue globe, a stark warning on the beach, Worlds Largest Plastic Monster, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.

Large amounts of trash and plastic refuse collect in Ballona Creek after first major rain storm of the season. Ballona Creek. Once a meandering creek, is now a concreted nine-mile flood channel that drains the Los Angeles Basin and watershed down into the Pacific Ocean, Culver City, California, USA

Peat bags ready to be swept Ireland

Pile of garbage at Dharavi Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

WASTE LAND (2010), directed by LUCY WALKER.

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