See the Island in Maldives Made Entirely of Trash

‘An Island Reclaimed From Waste’

In this September 2013 photo, a Bangladeshi immigrant named Fusin carries a sack of recyclables.

“All the waste we have produced since 1992: all the kitchen waste, all the plastic waste, all the chemical waste, all the waste that is coming from resort construction, everything has been dumped into this lagoon,” Aminath Shauna, Maldives’ Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, told Channel News Asia last month. “Now a landfill has become an island, an island that is reclaimed from waste.”

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