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Waste collectors sift through trash in Yangon's Shwepyithar Township in July. (Frontier)

‘Hard to breathe’: Myanmar communities forced to live among world’s trash

Communities in Yangon live surrounded by garbage – blocking doorsteps, piling up in front of windows and clogging water systems. While much of this waste is homegrown, some of it was shipped halfway around the world.

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