Saturday, August 11, 2012

Mathare Valley Dumpsite

Trucks carrying trash from all over the Nairobi metropolitan area, wait Friday, August 3, 2012 to enter the Mathare Valley dumpsite.


Pigs join workers Friday, August 3, 2012 in the Mathare Valley dumpsite, the destination for all of Nairobi's trash. The dumpsite borders the Mathare slum, the Dondora phases,
Kariobangi, and Ruma.

Old advertisements adorn the walls Friday, August 3, 2012 that form the entrance to the dumpsite outside Mathare and bordering the Dondora phases.

Trash smolders in the distance as workers wait to start their shift Friday, August 3, 2012, in the Mathare Valley dumpsite, outside of Nairobi Kenya.

A host of animals and birds feast on trash Friday, August 3, 2012, in the Mathare Valley dumpsite. Enterprising area residents bring their pigs and goats to the dumpsite, which
is used as a communal grazing ground.

A trash worker takes a break, Friday, August 3, 2012, from his sorting duties at the Mathare Valley dumpsite outside Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.

Trash workers sit amongst the mountains of trash they are tasked with sorting Friday, August 3, 2012, outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

An area resident walks past a mountain of plastic bottles Friday, August 3, 2012, in a dumpsite adjacent to Kenya's Mathare slum.
The Mathare slum is visible in the distance beyond hills of garbage Friday, August 3, 2012 in a dumpsite outside Nairobi, Kenya.

Piles of newly dumped garbage wait to be sorted Friday, August 3, 2012 in the Mathare Valley dumpsite. 
Workers unload trucks Friday, August 3, 2012, in Kenya's largest dumpsite. The service road shown here is carved from a solid mound of garbage that looms several stories high and
extends from the Mathare slum to the north, to the Dondora phases to the south.