After breakfast we loaded into two vans at 8: 30 a.m. and headed out for the day. We stopped in the Antigua office first to pick up our t-shirts then off to the city. At 10 a.m., after picking up a security guard to accompany us, we went to an overlook to see the dump. We are in large cemetery and it offers a vantage point. You can see the vultures overhead and some trucks down below. The vastness of the area is hard to capture in a photo. It's extremely deep and it's 14 acres in size. The land is very unstable and they've lost entire trucks in sinkholes. This is the only dump for a city of four million people so you can imagine the tons of trash that are hauled here everyday. The guajeros, workers in the dump, earn between five to fifteen quetzales (40 cents to $2) for every 100 pounds of recyclables that they turn in. 80% of the guajeros are women.
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