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  • Sante Fe dump on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • The Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh is heavily polluted with plastic and other non-biodegradable litter from fruit and vegetable markets at the Sadarghat docks.
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  • The Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh is heavily polluted with plastic and other non-biodegradable litter from fruit and vegetable markets at the Sadarghat docks.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.
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  • Keep out sign. Surplus oranges chopped up and dried in the sun for cattle feed by the Sungro Company on an old airfield runway in Famoso, California, USA. Don Smith's cattle feed drying lot.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Birds scavenge a landfill in a slum settlement in the Chairman District, next to the leather factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale at her market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, prepares tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.   (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man rakes muck out of open sewer outside microloan beneficiary Roseline Amondi's small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The raking of muck raises the level of the street over time.  Trash is also burned in the dirt street, as the streets and alley are too narrow for garbage collection, and even fire engines, raising the risk of huge slum fires. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • A girl buys a pastry made from fried dough from a vendor in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants., most of whom have limited access to clean water and sanitation.
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  • A girl buys a fried pastry from a vendor in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.  Providing affordable housing remains one of the key challenges of the Kenyan government.
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  • Vendors sell vegetables and fruit outside a marketplace pub in Narok, Kenya.
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  • Vendors push trolleys at a market Narok, Kenya, after an afternoon rainstorm.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a mother of four and microloan recipient with her day's worth of food outside her restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale at her market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (left), a microloan recipient and mother of four, sells fried tilapia and talks to her daughter (in brown shirt) at her market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya as her daughter looks on. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fishmongers sort tilapia on a market stall before  frying it and selling it to passing customers in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser, seen here with a pan of gold plated parts recovered from computers, was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Children queue for water at a communal watering point in the Kibera slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
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  • Tomatoes: Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA. The harvester has a scanner that sorts green from red tomatoes. Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Surplus oranges fed to cattle by H and E Cattle Feed Company near Bakersfield, California, USA.
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  • Picking red grapes, San Vincente de la Sonsierra. Rioja, Spain.
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  • Martin Yan, chef, at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts. Martin Yan gave a cooking demonstration of 'fire cracker chicken' at Copia's Meyer Food Forum cooking amphitheater. Napa, California. Napa Valley..
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  • "Noodling" for opals at an opal mine in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Grape picking near  San Vincente de la Sonsierra for the Remelluri Bodega in Labastida (Alava Province). Rioja, Spain.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Grape harvest near Castillo de Davilillo, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • The desert near the landfill dump in El Paso, Texas is littered with plastic and paper blown from the dumpsite. Pollution, recycling.
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • Benton Crossing Dump - Owen's Valley, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • A human skull, bones, and clothing dumped by a grave in  Champoton, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Toilet on a Niger River boat that dumps into the river in Mali.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of cabernet sauvignon that will be made into wine. A picker dumps his bin of grapes into the micro bins. Johnson Turnbull.
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Peter Menzel Photography

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