CPOY 64 Domestic Picture Story Award of Excellence: The Real Cycle of Trash
A narrative picture story or thematic essay photographed in your home country that either reports on significant events, celebrates life, portrays sport or explores environmental, social, economic or political topics
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September 24, 2008
Turkey vultures wait for a calm moment at the Black Oak landfill in Hartville, Missouri to explore the trash for food scraps on Sept. 24, 2008. Landfills and trash transfer stations often attract pests like rodents and scavenging animals to the area. "Once these cells are capped, hardly any breakdown of trash will take place," said Shelby Reese, Black Oak landfill supervisor.