Bill Tompkins Payatas Philippines Archive

PAYATAS, MANILA - [July 1988]: MANDATORY CREDIT Bill Tompkins/Getty Images Children pushing a cart with water containers. The Payatas Dumpsite, a 13 hectare garbage dumpsite. The site houses a 50-acre landfill which earns it the names "second Smokey Mountain", "21st Century Smokey Mountain", "new smokey Mountain", or "modern-day Smokey Mountain" due to scavengers migrating from the original Tondo landfill in 1995 after the latter's closure. Payatas dumpsite is still the largest open dumpsite in the Philippines and was reopened only months after the 2000 disaster at the request of scavengers and other residents of the area who depend on it for their livelihood. There has been some good progress at the dumpsite since the landslide of 2000, as the dumpsite has been re-sloped to a 40 degree angle from its original 70 degree angle while children under the age of 14 have been banned from the dumpsite and methane extractors remove the methane and convert it into electricity, preventing the spontaneous fires which used to characterize it. However ultimately a new dumpsite was created and while local officials claim this is a 'sanitary landfill', a single look at the mountain of trash reveals it is a mountain of garbage open to the elements. The same political pressures continue to keep the area poor as did before the landslide in 2000 and fundamentally very little has changed. Payatas is known for its former dumpsite which was closed in 2010. A landslide in the area caused the national legislation which banned open ground dump sites in the Philippines. A more regulated dumping ground was established adjacent to the old landfill in 2011, but the site was also closed in 2017. Photographed July 1988 in Payatas. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
PAYATAS, MANILA - [July 1988]: MANDATORY CREDIT Bill Tompkins/Getty Images Children pushing a cart with water containers. The Payatas Dumpsite, a 13 hectare garbage dumpsite. The site houses a 50-acre landfill which earns it the names "second Smokey Mountain", "21st Century Smokey Mountain", "new smokey Mountain", or "modern-day Smokey Mountain" due to scavengers migrating from the original Tondo landfill in 1995 after the latter's closure. Payatas dumpsite is still the largest open dumpsite in the Philippines and was reopened only months after the 2000 disaster at the request of scavengers and other residents of the area who depend on it for their livelihood. There has been some good progress at the dumpsite since the landslide of 2000, as the dumpsite has been re-sloped to a 40 degree angle from its original 70 degree angle while children under the age of 14 have been banned from the dumpsite and methane extractors remove the methane and convert it into electricity, preventing the spontaneous fires which used to characterize it. However ultimately a new dumpsite was created and while local officials claim this is a 'sanitary landfill', a single look at the mountain of trash reveals it is a mountain of garbage open to the elements. The same political pressures continue to keep the area poor as did before the landslide in 2000 and fundamentally very little has changed. Payatas is known for its former dumpsite which was closed in 2010. A landslide in the area caused the national legislation which banned open ground dump sites in the Philippines. A more regulated dumping ground was established adjacent to the old landfill in 2011, but the site was also closed in 2017. Photographed July 1988 in Payatas. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
Bill Tompkins Payatas Philippines Archive
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