Homeless People Have Been Living, Working and Dying at the Landfill for Decades

In the forests near large landfills near St. Petersburg, you can see houses built from improvised materials with homemade stoves and men and women living there with hands blackened from collecting waste. These people settle near landfills in search of work: they take what they find there to recycling centers. The residents of the landfills hide their houses from strangers, almost never go out into the city, and do not talk about their lives on s…