A woman scavenges for garbage at Jardim Gramacho, the biggest open air garbage dump in Latin American on its closing day on May 31, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Open since 1978, the massive dump and its 60 million tons of urban, chemical and industrial waste from Rio de Janeiro and 200 nearby factories is closing on the occasion of a UN conference on sustainable development to be held in Rio this month.
Buda Mendes is a Rio-based photographer for Getty Images Latin America.
AP/Buda Mendes
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