Jardim Gramacho
Jardim Gramacho is a neighborhood in the city of Duque de Caxias and the state of Rio de Janeiro.Landfill
Jardim Gramacho was the site of one of the largest landfills in the world. It closed in June 2012 after 34 years of operation.
The dump was started on an ecologically-sensitive wetland in the 1970s adjacent to Guanabara Bay.
The Associação dos Catadores do Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho is an organization of "pickers" who sort through garbage in the landfill, finding recyclables as a means of survival. The 2010 film Waste Land documented two years of work by Brazilian contemporary modern artist Vik Muniz in creating art with the cooperation of the recycling pickers at the landfill.
