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For the rural children of Bantar Gebang, making money from recycling plastic trash is a lifeline for their impoverished families. It is hard work in the hot sun and with site swarming with filth and stench, the conditions are less than sanitary. The trash pickers scavenge systematically for glass, plastic or paper, and anything else that can be sold for recycling. Eight hundred trucks dump their oozing cargo on rubbish heaps several storeys high every day, as hundreds of children scramble amongst themselves to scoop up what they want. They jostled for the best spots with other adult men and women. As they work, they move about warily, dodging bulldozers and the swinging arms of excavators to pick out the most valuable waste. Bantar Gebang is Jakarta’s garbage disposal dump, a sprawling 110-hectare site on the outskirts of the capital and home to six thousand rubbish collectors, all of whom survive on unwanted or used materials discarded by Jakarta’s ever-growing population.
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