Maldives garbage. Boat after boat day after day year after year. Just a few miles west of male the capital city of maldives and one of the most densely populated islands on earth lies the island of thilafushi the location of maldivess municipal landfill. Across the entire maldives approximately 860 tonnes 860000 kg of solid waste is discarded per day.
The maldives produces an estimate 500 tonnes of rubbish per day with vast amounts of water borne waste from other countries carried in daily on the indian ocean currents. Up until the mid 80s most household garbage was organic and would decompose when discarded. Construction waste is dumped to the sea to extend the land area.
In fact thilafushi was not even an island. In time the garbage mounted to 330 tons per day and the island soon became the worlds largest rubbish dump. As per official statistics a single tourist produces 35kg of garbage a day twice as much as someone from male and five times more then anyone from the rest of the maldives archipelago.
Trash is sorted and materials such as plastic and metal are recycled house hold waste is mostly incinerated. Sixteen years ago it was an unspoilt coral reef. Thilafushi receives hundreds of tonnes of rubbish from other islands in the maldives every day.
But it is now growing by one square metre every day. But thilafushi was not always a garbage island. Instead of looking at this wasteland is really horrific.
According to official statistics a single tourist produces 35 kg of garbage a day twice as much as someone from male and five times more than anyone from the rest of the maldives archipelago. However with an increase in the production and consumption of single use products like plastic materials this was no longer the case. The trash was dumped on thilafushi island a convenient riddance.
Garbage is bought from across the country and lit on fire. The landfill island is a sort of eerie beautiful apocalyptic art piece. Maldives the island nation is made up of 1190 islands and has a local population of under 400000.
This garbage dumping island of maldives is also known as the rubbish island. Thilafushi the trash island of maldives collects trash from many residential islands in kaafu atoll and resorts across the country.
Maldives Garbage Recycling And Thilafushi Neil Walton Photography
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