Waste Land Page #2

This is the end of the line...

This is where everything

that is not good goes.

Including the people.

We are working with the type

of individuals that...

are in Brazilian society,

not different than garbage itself.

The most poisonous thing in Brazilian

culture and society, is classicism.

It's horrible

how people really believe...

and I am talking

about educated people...

They really believe they

are better than other people.

You see?

It's all recycling

industry around here.

People all dealing with garbage.

Every single lot

is filled with garbage.

And you see people

are carrying garbage?

It's like a garbage land.

People look at us in a funny way,

"What the hell are we doing here?"

I see the hill.

Oh sh*t.

Oh my God.

It's like a mountain.

Where are we exactly?

Right here.

Hi Lucio, I'm Vik.

Pleasure to meet you.

Hi, how are you doing?

What's really impressive...

is that it's the largest

landfill in the world.

Yes, it's the largest landfill in terms

of the volume of trash received daily.

The ground underneath here

is all soft.

The landfill is like a plate of jell-o.

If you keep adding to

it without careful balancing...

it will sink here or collapse there.

You can see what they're

recycling over there.

And it's separate there.

Cardboard, paper, plastics, glass,

metal - they collect everything.

It works like a stock exchange.

They collect whatever the market

demands at any given time.

So the recycling wholesalers

tell the pickers what they need...

and then that's what they collect.

Yes, that's right.

They sell the materials

right here at the landfill.

And then it goes to the recycling

wholesalers, the intermediaries.

There they process it, removing

the bottle caps and so on.

From there it goes to another

company for shredding.

The shredded material

gets sold again...

to companies who mold it into

car bumpers, buckets, etc.

The pickers take out 200 tons of

materials per day from the landfill.

- Every day.

- Every day.

That's equivalent to the garbage

produced by a city of 400,000 people.

- Amazing!

- Yeah.

So that's why the pickers are

really important to the landfill...

because they help

increase its capacity.

Does all of Rio's trash end up here?

and 100% of the closest suburbs.

So the garbage from

the millionaire's mansion mixes...

with the garbage

from the poorest favela?

For sure.

Dude!

Dude, It's a city of garbage!

It's funny how you get

used to the smell.

Yeah, I feel right at home!

- Did you hear that one?

- No.

That guy said, "They're

filming for Animal Planet!"

It's not as bad as I thought.

Here we are in the largest

sanitary facility...

in the world.

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