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A young Palestinian boy carries a bag with scavenged plastic on a dump site outside Gaza City on Nov. 8, 2012. The site is just a few hundred meters away from the Israeli border and the workers have to be careful not to come too close or they fear they could come under Israeli fire. With a day's work the scavengers earn the equivalent of approximately 1 Euro or about $1.27.
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Great Adjutant storks stand as a woman rag-picker collects recyclables at the biggest garbage dump in the northeastern state of Assam on the eve of World Environment Day at the Boragoan area in Guwahati, India, on June 4. The UN declared 2011 the International Year of Forests with this year's World Environment Day theme 'Forests: Nature at your Service'.
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Dump truck driver Dan Holland, left, looks at his flipped his dump truck in Kenton County, Ky. on Tuesday, April 19.
Seems like it would be hard to make a dump truck do this. WCPO.com reports that the accident caused I-275 in northern Kentucky to shut down for an hour. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
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Riot police take cover after being attacked by protestors in Terzigno, Italy, on Oct. 23. The protesters were demonstrating against the opening of a new dump on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Apparently there is an existing dump which people oppose the use of on Mount Vesuvius, and there is a plan to open a new one, which is drawing the locals' ire as well. To make matters worse, the protests are happening at the same time as a strike by garbage collectors, which has resulted in tons of trash piling up and stinking up the streets of Terzigno.
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