Brazil's largest landfill closed this month leaving thousands of scavengers, and the 35,000 people living nearby, fearing more poverty and an increase in crime while the economy struggles to provide jobs. We followed Sandra Montes and her husband Emerson Oliveira de Souza as they trawled through tons of waste just days before the site closed. So she turned to rummaging through Latin America’s largest dump looking for recyclables to sell, clothes to wear and toys to give her children. Now she and her fellow scavengers at the Estrutural landfill will have to find work elsewhere. Nearly 60 years after Brazil carved a modernist capital out of its wind-swept central plateau and began dumping its solid...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 22, 2018 10:30 UTC