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  • Retrieving plastic waste for recycling and resale from a river in Nairobi, Kenya
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  • Retrieving plastic waste for recycling and resale from a river in Nairobi, Kenya
    Kenya_Hawkey_AP-ACT_20191011_2088.jpg
  • Retrieving plastic waste for recycling and resale from a river in Nairobi, Kenya
    Kenya_Hawkey_AP-ACT_20191011_2111.jpg
  • A worker at a butchers stall sells meat with a plastic bag on his head at the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • A worker at a butchers stall sells meat with a plastic bag on his head at the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Huembes_20140821_09...jpg
  • Kibera in Nairobi is the biggest slum in Africa with around a million inhabitants. Potable water and waste management are not government supported and are resolved by community based organisations, CBOs. Maji Na Ufanisi an NGO focusing on water and sanitation works with Ushirika a CBO in the Soweto and Laini Sapa districts of the slum, supporting the construction of potable water infrastructure and community latrines, which are then managed by the community.
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  • Rubbish in the streets. Kibera in Nairobi is the biggest slum in Africa with around a million inhabitants. Potable water and waste management are not government supported and are resolved by community based organisations, CBOs. Maji Na Ufanisi an NGO focusing on water and sanitation works with Ushirika a CBO in the Soweto and Laini Sapa districts of the slum, supporting the construction of potable water infrastructure and community latrines, which are then managed by the community.
    kenya_hawkey_20070209_127.jpg
  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling. <br />
<br />
Here he is working in the plastic recycling plant that ASOGUABO has established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_608.jpg
  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling. <br />
<br />
Here he is working in the plastic recycling plant that ASOGUABO has established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_619.jpg
  • The small scale banana producer association ASOGUABO, in southern Ecuador, uses part of its Fairtrade premium to finance a plastic recycling enterprise, and recycles all of the plastic from the producer farms.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190911_1032.jpg
  • Edwin Mero Probaño is President of ASOGUABO, a Fairtrade-certified banana producing coop in southern Ecuador. <br />
<br />
Here he walks through the plastic recycling plant that they have established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_589.jpg
  • The small scale banana producer association ASOGUABO, in southern Ecuador, uses part of its Fairtrade premium to finance a plastic recycling enterprise, and recycles all of the plastic from the producer farms.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190911_1124.jpg
  • The small scale banana producer association ASOGUABO, in southern Ecuador, uses part of its Fairtrade premium to finance a plastic recycling enterprise, and recycles all of the plastic from the producer farms.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190911_1076.jpg
  • The small scale banana producer association ASOGUABO, in southern Ecuador, uses part of its Fairtrade premium to finance a plastic recycling enterprise, and recycles all of the plastic from the producer farms.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190911_1060.jpg
  • Edwin Mero Probaño, President of ASOGUABO, a Fairtrade-certified banana producing coop in southern Ecuador.<br />
<br />
Here he walks through the plastic recycling plant that they have established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_633.jpg
  • Edwin Mero Probaño is President of ASOGUABO, a Fairtrade-certified banana producing coop in southern Ecuador. Here he walks through the plastic recycling plant that they have established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_587.jpg
  • The small scale banana producer association ASOGUABO, in southern Ecuador, uses part of its Fairtrade premium to finance a plastic recycling enterprise, and recycles all of the plastic from the producer farms.
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190911_1057.jpg
  • Lisenia Ramon Sanmartín<br />
<br />
'I've been in ASOGUABO since 1998. The Association, since I joined, has always given support to women and men, equally. Women are in ASOGUABO, and we are treated the same as men. <br />
<br />
With Fairtrade, our bananas get us some extra support, for our workers, and we get stability, guarantees that we're going to sell our bananas at a fair and stable price, a price that it higher than the pay you get outside of Fairtrade. <br />
<br />
If you need support to improve your packing station, you get it, if you need a road to your packing station, you get it, if you need to imrprove your drainage, you get it.<br />
<br />
We also get support for our workers and children when it's term time, for studying. We've put in a water treatment plant in Las Casitas, for the people living there to have drinking water.<br />
<br />
And we are running projects like the plastic recycling, we are all recycling. Here we are all using the three Rs, reuse, recycle, and, the other R, haha.<br />
<br />
We are grateful to everyone for taking us into consideration. We don't want gifts, we want to work, with dignity, so, please buy our bananas!.'
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190912_741.jpg
  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling.<br />
<br />
'We extract and mix elements here, including garlic, onion, ginger, charcoal, minerals, sometimes small amounts of soil from virgin forest, and plenty of other sources, and with them we produce large volumes of liquid fertilizers charged with nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms, mycorrhizae, and we give these to the producers. And we produce organic insect repellants too. Nearly all of our producers are already 100% organic, and these products are natural, they boost fertility and they subdue and control plant diseases. We've built this lab with Fairtrade premium.'
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_560.jpg
  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling.<br />
<br />
'We extract and mix elements here, including garlic, onion, ginger, charcoal, minerals, sometimes small amounts of soil from virgin forest, and plenty of other sources, and with them we produce large volumes of liquid fertilizers charged with nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms, mycorrhizae, and we give these to the producers. And we produce organic insect repellants too. Nearly all of our producers are already 100% organic, and these products are natural, they boost fertility and they subdue and control plant diseases. We've built this lab with Fairtrade premium.'
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_558.jpg
  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling.<br />
<br />
'We extract and mix elements here, including garlic, onion, ginger, charcoal, minerals, sometimes small amounts of soil from virgin forest, and plenty of other sources, and with them we produce large volumes of liquid fertilizers charged with nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms, mycorrhizae, and we give these to the producers. And we produce organic insect repellants too. Nearly all of our producers are already 100% organic, and these products are natural, they boost fertility and they subdue and control plant diseases. We've built this lab with Fairtrade premium.'
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_554.jpg
  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling.<br />
<br />
'We extract and mix elements here, including garlic, onion, ginger, charcoal, minerals, sometimes small amounts of soil from virgin forest, and plenty of other sources, and with them we produce large volumes of liquid fertilizers charged with nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms, mycorrhizae, and we give these to the producers. And we produce organic insect repellants too. Nearly all of our producers are already 100% organic, and these products are natural, they boost fertility and they subdue and control plant diseases. We've built this lab with Fairtrade premium.'
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190909_529.jpg
  • A plastic chair stands in the ruins of the house of Mohammed Khaled Rabaya, in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. The house was demolished on July 4th 2017 by Israeli forces with a bulldozer.
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  • An itinerant seller of plastic bowls in a market in southern Malawi
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  • Norman Alexander Martínez López, 17, alias "Jesús", from the El Guanábano neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa. He makes 80 Lempiras a day recycling tins and plastic bottles on the Tegucigalpa municipal dump.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180809_4162.jpg
  • Honey is poured into a plastic jar at the CIPAC coop. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_016.jpg
  • Vandana Shiva spoke to the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180607...jpg
  • Father John Chryssavgis spoke to the media during the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180607...jpg
  • Christos Zerefos heads the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology at the Academy of Athens. Zerefos spoke to the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180606...jpg
  • Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, UNFCCC. Espinosa spoke to the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180606...jpg
  • Raj Patel, film-maker and activist, spoke to the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180606...jpg
  • Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. Sachs spoke to the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180606...jpg
  • A Honduran migrant tied his shoes with string to stop the soles falling off. In southern Mexico he had to walk two weeks, day and night with little sleep in extreme temperatures, then he was chased by migration police through rough terrain for hours and his shoes fell apart. He also lost his backpack during a chase, he has fashioned a backpack from a plastic bag and some rope.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210611_344.jpg
  • Lisenia Ramon Sanmartín (right hand side of the picture) with her packing team.<br />
<br />
'I've been in ASOGUABO since 1998. The Association, since I joined, has always given support to women and men, equally. Women are in ASOGUABO, and we are treated the same as men. <br />
<br />
With Fairtrade, our bananas get us some extra support, for our workers, and we get stability, guarantees that we're going to sell our bananas at a fair and stable price, a price that it higher than the pay you get outside of Fairtrade. <br />
<br />
If you need support to improve your packing station, you get it, if you need a road to your packing station, you get it, if you need to imrprove your drainage, you get it.<br />
<br />
We also get support for our workers and children when it's term time, for studying. We've put in a water treatment plant in Las Casitas, for the people living there to have drinking water.<br />
<br />
And we are running projects like the plastic recycling, we are all recycling. Here we are all using the three Rs, reuse, recycle, and, the other R, haha.<br />
<br />
We are grateful to everyone for taking us into consideration. We don't want gifts, we want to work, with dignity, so, please buy our bananas!.'
    Ecuador_Hawkey_20190912_857.jpg
  • A tube of plastic explosives, C4, is inserted into a hole in a rock face underground. The two-foot long fuse used here is lit with a flame, and the miner must leave the mine quickly, being manually hoisted to the surface by his co-workers. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5379.jpg
  • Norman Alexander Martínez López, 17, alias "Jesús", from the El Guanábano neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa. He makes 80 Lempiras a day recycling tins and plastic bottles on the Tegucigalpa municipal dump.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180809_4167.jpg
  • Maria Jesús Medina Pineda, Ciudad Nueva, Marcala<br />
<br />
My mother died when I was five years old, we were ten brothers and sisters. We grew up, how could I tell you, it was a horrible thing. My father had already left the country because of political problems. Damned political parties. They wanted to kill him. We suffered a lot of hunger. The family disintegrated, some left, some died. I stayed with my older sister, she’s still alive, she’ll be 100 years old in September.<br />
<br />
I haven’t always lived here, I used to live near the Catholic church in Marcala. But because we toast coffee, the smoke polluted the air in the city, so we moved out here. I’m 80 and I work every day. That’s the secret to eternal youth, work hard and be honest, I have no ailments, I’m healthy. I had three children, one is in the United States. The boy manages the coffee factory. We prepare, toast and sell coffee in bags. We have been toasting coffee for 40 years, I was the first to do it. I began playing around with it, with plastic bags, I used to send the children out to the street to sell them, or to the neighbours, at three Colons a pound, at that time we used the Colon (Salvadorean currency), as we are near to the Salvadorean border. It’s an honest business, a healthy business. The father of my children died. I didn’t get married, I just had my children, with a military man, he was already married. I have a grandson who is a pilot and another who is a civil engineer and he’s in the United States, you can’t get work here, only if you are involved in politics you can get a job here.<br />
<br />
I fell madly in love with the military man, I was about 22 years old, I had my kids with him.<br />
<br />
With the business, I began in shocking poverty. We didn’t know what to do then. I worked as a secretary in the Junta Nacional. And I worked in the high command of the Army, from four until nine at night. I earned 225 Lempiras in the Junta, and 150 in the high command. I’d put aside 30 Lempiras for the c
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  • Honey in plastic bottles, produced and processed by the  CIPAC coop. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_002.jpg
  • Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Professor Schelinhuber spoke to the Greener Attica Symposium on the Saronic Islands, Greece. This international ecological symposium organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened theologians and scientists, political and business leaders, as well as activists and journalists from all over the world. Participants explored pressing issues such as climate change, loss of diversity and plastic pollution.
    Greeece_Hawkey_Green_Attica_20180606...jpg
  • People sheltered under plastic sheets. Despite it raining all day, between six and seven million people turned out for a mass by Pope Francis in Rizal Park in Manila.
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  • Many people kept the rain off with plastic sheeting. Despite it raining all day, between six and seven million people turned out for a mass by Pope Francis in Rizal Park in Manila.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Pope_Francis_2015...jpg
  • A young man sits among the rubbish. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_718.jpg
  • A young man sits among the rubbish.. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_707.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_695.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_566.jpg
  • A man puts recylcable rubbish into his sack as a line of vultures watch over him. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_671.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_582.jpg
  • A man rests after a day of work at the dump. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_524.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_505.jpg
  • A woman sorting rubbish smiles. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_490.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_483.jpg
  • A young boy among the rubbish. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_514.jpg
  • a driver waits for a new load of recycled plastics at a rubbish dump near Tegucigalpa
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180809_4066.jpg
  • a driver waits for a new load of recycled plastics at a rubbish dump near Tegucigalpa
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180809_4068.jpg
  • Vultures stretch atop the rubbish as tyres burn. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_711.jpg
  • Clouds of smoke from burning tyres in the sky over the dump. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_575.jpg
  • Portrait of a man on the rubbish dump after a day's work. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_567.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_551.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_506.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_517.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_501.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_492.jpg