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I was born and raised here.
There were few houses in here, it was all mud.
Sometimes I just keep gazing at it... Boy, look at where I used to go get timber, the size of those buildings now.
It was after I had my whole family that the dump went there, to the first hole.
After that it came here, to the stone quarry.
Do you see that place up there?
That was where they dumped the garbage. All over there.
It was a huge hole...
We'd go down there to get things.
People ran like crazy, falling in the middle of the dump...
Tires rolling over people...
It was a very risky life... -It's true!
We took many things from the dump, the whole house is made out of waste.
It's called "waste", but in itself it's not completely waste.
Thank God, ours is a rich country.
You only see poverty if you are poor yourself, and live among the poor.
Because the sons of the rich, those who study in expensive schools.
They use and throw away enough to provide for two or three.
Nobody talked about recycling and we were already doing it.
Not everything ended up in the ground.
Everything that goes to the ground, comes back to us.
Then, waste is being buried and I don't think that's a good thing.
I think it's lack of knowledge... In schools and such.
Some times they study things as if they were very important...
And what's really important is left behind.
I myself have worked in many households, and for them...
"-Throw that away it's worthless" I said: "-It does!"
Not knowing that it's a part of their lives.
- How come? - If you don't eat you don't make garbage.
If you don't wear clothes you don't make garbage.
So, garbage is your very life.
LANDFILL
Subtitles: Andrés Schaffer