A portrait of Manila, photographs from the Philippines by Jed Bacason
▻http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/07/23/jed-bacason-manila-philippines-portrait/6188
Hundreds of families of scavengers eke out a living at a large garbage dump in Manila, Philippines called Happyland. The ironic name comes from the word hapilan, a local term for a dump site. Happyland scavengers forage the large mound of garbage for any recyclable materials such as plastics, bottles, and metal parts where they exchange them at nearby junk shops. Scavengers earn a measly eighty pesos (USD 2.00) for a day’s work.