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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Used tires entering a prototype burning-burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. A tire mountain containing around 40 million tires dominates the landscape (background); the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc- containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • Mountain of used tires at a prototype tire- burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. The mountain contains around 40 million tires & the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc-containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • Mountain of used tires at a prototype tire- burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. The mountain contains around 40 million tires & the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc-containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • One of many shops in old Sarajevo that sell tea and coffee sets, pepper grinders and decorated plates, as well as items fashioned from discarded brass military shell casings. Bosnia and Herzegovina. ©2005 Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
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  • Outside the Quiapo Market in the Philippines, people pick through the trash discarded from the early-morning wholesale market. Inside, the covered market is a tumult of activity and offers an extraordinary variety of goods, ranging from food, clothing, consumer electronics, and patent medicines to religious images and even prayers (busy people can outsource their prayers to the Quiapo Church's "prayer ladies"). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A passing cow eats discarded marigold garlands along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A man holds up a mass of plastic bags retrieved from the stomach of a pregnant cow that became critically bloated and had to be slaughtered in a village near Narouk, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • A painted pachyderm pauses for a snack of discarded cauliflower leaves and receives blessings from an admirer during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. Elephants, like cows and other animals, are shown respect throughout India, and Hindu deities are often represented in their form. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • A woman paddles a raft made of discarded lightweight refuse in the Banani Lake slum district. She gathers water in plastic jugs and bottles from a public spigot on the other side of the lake to bring back to her slum home on an island in the lake.
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  • A man makes a fire after slaughtering a pregnant cow that got critically bloated after swallowing plastic bags in a village near Narouk, Kenya. In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Plastic bags discarded after they were used for holding qat are blown by the wind and snagged on a desert bush near a qat market in BinAifan. Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Villagers inspect the carcass of a cow they slaughtered after it swallowed more than 10 kilograms of plastic bags and became critically bloated in a village near Narouk, Kenya.  This discovery came at the cost of two cattle in a culture that values livestock highly. In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Here the dead calf is removed from the birth sack. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • A woman hangs up laundry to dry on a Cairo, Egypt rooftop in old Cairo. Rooftops often end up as repositories for discarded items.
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