06_30_08 DANDORA DUMP (28 images)

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Residents sort through garbage to find recyclable items to sell at the Dandora Municipal Dumping Site in Nairobi, Kenya June 29, 2008. Scavengers search for items to sell such a metal and plastic bottles which sell for roughly half a dollar per kilogram. Daily over 2000 tons of garbage are delivered to the site which a 2007 study commissioned by the U.N. Environment Program found that half of 328 children tested round the site had lead concentrations in their blood exceeding the...
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