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View all search resultsThe workers, wearing orange uniforms and matching rubber boots, are tasked with collecting trash to keep Jakarta’s rivers and riverbanks clean — no small feat in a city where littering remains a massive issue.
Some 1.1 billion tons of waste — more than 40 percent of the world’s garbage — is burned in open piles, the study’s authors found, contributing more emissions than had been previously known, especially in developing countries like Mexico, Ghana and, yes, Indonesia.
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