Collapsed Containers: the Overflow of Garbage Is Already Part of the Landscape in the Five Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires with More Claims

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“There are days that I do three blocks to throw away the garbage and when I get there it doesn’t go in any more; I have no other left to leave it outside,” says Simón Gentili while he rests one bag on another, next to an overflowing container on an internal street in the porteño neighborhood of San Nicolás. The smell is penetrating, a mixture of accumulated waste and urine that is impregnated on the sidewalk. A few meters away, another scene rep…