welcome to irisan, a barangay (village) in baguio city, the philippines’ ’summer city’. there are around 125 barangays in bagiuo city and the majority of the the rubbish/waste they all produce lands at this landfill site which has developed into an enormous, presumably horrific smelling mountain, nestled amongst the housing you see above. if you look closely you can see some locals milling around at the top, most probably earning their living from the surroundings.

below is the area on google maps. the direct link is here. 



seeing this reminded me of hiriya in israel….



photo: meron c

the photo above isn’t of a beautiful natural land formation, it’s the hiriya waste dump from a distance: a landfill so large that planes approaching nearby ben gurion airport were, until the site was closed a decade ago, known to run into trouble due to the high concentration of swarming birds attracted to the smell.



sources: 1, 2