Philippines: Living on Smoky Mountain
8 minutes, 2004
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As reality TV goes, it doesn’t get more real than this. Manila’s main garbage dump at Payatas – one of its notorious smoking mountains of refuse, providing a living for thousands of scavengers, working in teams to recycle what the Philippines capital has to throw away. Now minor celebrities have been brought together and challenged to live like scavengers for 24-hours.