Garbage in Kathmandu
For a project of the Dopper Foundation, I'm working in Nepal with three other storytellers: Sander - a documentary maker, Marieke - a writer and Sef - a musician. We're capturing stories - each in our own way - about water and garbage. You can see the story on the website of Dopper.
It’s 5.30 AM when my alarm wakes me out of a deep sleep. The reason it was set this early, is a – semi illegal – excursion to a landfill outside of Kathmandu. Trucks full of trash arriving every couple of minutes, dumping the garbage on a mountain of waste. Many women work on this mountain as a ‘freelancer’, sorting out plastic bottles, cardboard, latex and any other materials they can sell on to recycle factories in mostly India. It is impressive to see and I can’t even remotely explain the smell that penetrates your nose, basically disabling you to do what ever you want to do.
Some of the photos are featured on my website as well, but I really just wanted to post a lot more.
