These dumpsites are more or less organised municipal dumpsites, but also spontaneous sites just outside the hospital, or at remote places.

	Hospital waste is dumped on the beach. The hospital is located at the left. Waste pickers, wind, rain, birds, rats, mice and insects have free game here. The beach is no longer usefull for tourism. Photo: Heart Consultancy, Wageningen
	A close up of previous picture. Beside many plastic drip bottles, also gloves, used syringes (filled with blood rests) and needles are visible now. Photo: Heart Consultancy, Wageningen.
	Waste is being piled up behind a hospital (see the nurse left behind). Photo: Heart Consultancy, Wageningen
	Staff of the pilot hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on a visit to the dumpsite, where “their” waste arrive. They were deeply impressed by how waste pickers and Sanitary Service workers come in direct contact with contagious and toxic waste from their institution. Photo: Huize Aarde
	Dutch visit to the dumpsite La Cienaga in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The hospital waste can be recognised on large distance by the blue green operation textile. Photo: Huize Aarde
	Beside operation textile also gloves and blood filled syringes can be found on the dumpsite. Photo: Huize Aarde
	Here also drip tubes and used needles are visible. Photo: Huize Aarde
	Blood remains well conserved in the old IV-bags on the dumpsite. Photo: Huize Aarde
	On this municipal dumpsite (red) bags with hospital waste has been dumped just now. A bulldozer covers them with other waste. The dumpsite is sited on the slope of a mountain. With rainwater toxic components from the waste are pouring down the slope, in the direction of the residential area at the foot of the slope. After heavy rains waste can also come down in avalanches. Photo: Waste Consultancy, Gouda.

To photo album waste pickers on the dump site.
To photo album animals on the dumpsite.
To photo album recycling on the dumpsite.

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