Payatas, lining in the garbage (Manila, Philippines) color version
Barangay Payatas is a predominantly urban poor barangay in the north-eastern district of Quezon City which is within Metropolitan Manila. It has been a disposal site for the city’s solid waste for over two decades and is currently the main dumping ground for the city’s garbage. There is no official record of the population numbers for the 3,019 hectare barangay; official figures are based on the registered voting population in Payatas, which is currently 32,000. While the population in Payatas has been steadily increasing since the 1970s, there was a sudden upsurge in the population after 1986 and and in the early 1990s, when large numbers of urban poor were relocated by the local government to Payatas from various slum settlements in Quezon City. The Payatas dump site has provided both a home and a livelihood to about 4,000 scavenger families within and outside the barangay, who have long considered solid waste as a resource to be recovered.
Size: 4134px × 6201px
Location: Payatas, Manila, Philippines, Asia
Photo credit: © Erberto Zani / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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