Jakarta faces huge waste crisis as garbage mountains rise
Absence of recycling scheme, little awareness of 'going green' blamed
Bekasi, Indonesia
SIFTING through a mountain of garbage with her bare hands, a thick cloth wrapped around her face to keep out the stench, Patimah recalled her early days scavenging at a dump on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital the size of 120 football fields.
"I vomited back then," she told AFP while wading through knee-deep waste, swatting away flies as she hunted for plastic bottles amid food scraps and soiled clothing.
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