Originally published here. “I spent my childhood smelling the garbage dump,” recalls journalist Isabel Almeida, 30. A resident of the Perus region, in the Northwest Zone of São Paulo, she lived with the odor of the old Bandeirantes Landfill until 2007, when the dump was deactivated after operating for 28 years. However, a meat and bone meal factory owned by João Gava e Filhos, a company that recycles bovine byproducts, began operating in the are…
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Originally published here. “I spent my childhood smelling the garbage dump,” recalls journalist Isabel Almeida, 30. A resident of the Perus region, in the Northwest Zone of São Paulo, she lived with the odor of the old Bandeirantes Landfill until 2007, when the dump was deactivated after operating for 28 years. However, a meat and bone meal factory owned by João Gava e Filhos, a company that recycles bovine byproducts, began operating in the are…