Recyclers working in Mexico city landfill, today closed

• Mexico

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The pepenadores on the immense Mexico City dump. After Mexico City authorities shut down the Bordo Poniente landfill, one of the largest dumps in the world, garbage has started to accumulate and trucks have been slower to pick it up.
The Bordo Poniente landfill site has been in use since 1985. It covers an area of 600 hectares and was receiving 12,600 tonnes of waste a day, 7,000 of them from municipalities in the state of Mexico, adjacent to the Federal District (DF) or city proper, according to the capital city's secretariat of works and services.
Moreover, 70 million tonnes of waste are buried underground at the dump, causing serious water and air pollution problems.