at risk in brazil casual trash because and now being given the chance to train as official waste saltus instead. this patch of land 20 kilometers outside the capital brasilia used to be the biggest landfill site in latin america last year the dump was closed and the 60 meter high mountain of garbage was covered with. construction waste is still being dumped there although that's illegal for national waste policy and to eradicate landfills and promote recycling with residual waste either incinerated or going to sanitary landfills that protect the environment but there are still 2 and a half 1000 open landfill sites across the country. fernandes worked here as a waste picker for 20 years mainly at night she supported her 4 children by selling anything of value she found they used to live in a shanty town right beside the dump and. they were always in a struggle with the trucks of the bulldozers and with more than a 1000 other people working here i thought it was survival of the fittest bethought myself about how much you took as much as i could get. and for women it was very challenging p