20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

20-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

19-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

19-03-2022 - Colorado, USA-Guns into Garden Tools. Blacksmith Fred Martin making garden tools from discarded firearms. Martin is part of a Mennonite nonprofit, RAWTools, that is inspired by the Biblical injunction... © Jim West

22-07-2021 - Detroit, Michigan - An automobile junk yard. © Jim West

22-07-2021 - Detroit, Michigan - An automobile junk yard. © Jim West

13-08-2020 - Discarded nitrous oxide cannister littering the street, Kineton, Warwickshire. Also called Laughing gas, the drug, when inhaled, gives a quick but brief high © John Harris

12-08-2020 - Detroit, USA. Discarded nitrous oxide cannisters littering the streets in southwest Detroit. Also called Laughing gas, the drug, when inhaled, gives a quick but brief high © Jim West

12-08-2020 - Detroit, USA. Discarded nitrous oxide cannisters littering the streets in southwest Detroit. Also called Laughing gas, the drug, when inhaled, gives a quick but brief high © Jim West

12-08-2020 - Detroit, USA. Discarded nitrous oxide cannisters littering the streets in southwest Detroit. Also called Laughing gas, the drug, when inhaled, gives a quick but brief high © Jim West

18-12-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Plastic bottles and cans illegally dumped in a woods. Many are juice or water containers, which are not covered under Michigan law requiring a 10 cent deposit © Jim West

18-12-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Plastic bottles and cans illegally dumped in a woods. Many are juice or water containers, which are not covered under Michigan law requiring a 10 cent deposit © Jim West

18-12-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Plastic bottles and cans illegally dumped in a woods. Many are juice or water containers, which are not covered under Michigan law requiring a 10 cent deposit © Jim West

18-12-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Plastic bottles and cans illegally dumped in a woods. Many are juice or water containers, which are not covered under Michigan law requiring a 10 cent deposit © Jim West

06-09-2017 - Discarded water bottles, coffee cups and drink cans in a Soho street, London © Philip Wolmuth

27-08-2015 - Dismaland a parody of Disneyland theme park by Banksy, Weston Super Mare. Discarded shopping trolly Bemusement Park. © Paul Box

20-03-2015 - A young man scavenging for scrap tries to salvage parts from a discarded computer tower. The Ski Village was burnt down in 2012 by an arson attack and has since been left derelict. Sheffield, South Yo... © Connor Matheson

09-09-2014 - Tijuana, Mexico Homeless people have set up a camp in the riverbed of the Tijuana River, in downtown Tijuana, not far from the U.S. Mexico border. Juan Guerra, an indigenous Zapotec migrant from Oaxac... © David Bacon

09-09-2014 - Tijuana, Mexico Homeless people have set up a camp in the riverbed of the Tijuana River, in downtown Tijuana, not far from the U.S. Mexico border. © David Bacon

09-09-2014 - Tijuana, Mexico, homeless woman collecting cans and plastic from garbage dumpsters © David Bacon

09-09-2014 - Tijuana, Mexico, homeless woman collecting cans and plastic from garbage dumpsters © David Bacon

09-09-2014 - Tijuana, Mexico - Homeless people have set up a camp in the riverbed of the Tijuana River, in downtown Tijuana, not far from the U.S. Mexico border. Juan Guerra, a Zapotec migrant from Oaxaca, cooks a... © David Bacon

24-04-2014 - Detroit, Michigan - Old and unwanted electronic items are collected for recycling at Wayne State University. © Jim West

24-04-2014 - Detroit, Michigan - Old and unwanted electronic items are collected for recycling at Wayne State University. © Jim West

24-04-2014 - Detroit, Michigan - Old and unwanted electronic items are collected for recycling at Wayne State University. © Jim West

24-04-2014 - Detroit, Michigan - Old and unwanted electronic items are collected for recycling at Wayne State University. © Jim West

08-11-2012 - Mobile, Alabama - Gulls and pelicans follow a shrimp trawler on Mobile Bay. The birdsare feeding on the non-shrimp bycatch discarded from the trawler. The trawler is part of the Alabama Fisheries Coop... © Jim West

08-11-2012 - Mobile, Alabama - A shrimp trawler on Mobile Bay. Gulls and pelicans follow the boat to snap up the non-shrimp bycatch that is discarded. © Jim West

30-08-2012 - Furniture in the back garden, Bell vue, Wakefield. © Connor Matheson

27-01-2010 - An abandoned sofa dumped by the side of a country lane. Fly tipping blocking a field gate and a footpath in Warwickshire © John Harris

03-12-2009 - A cleaner collects and bags discarded newspapers from a carriage at London Underground's Northumberland Park Depot, which services the 42 tube trains on the Victoria line. © Philip Wolmuth

03-12-2009 - A cleaner collects and bags discarded newspapers from a carriage at London Underground's Northumberland Park Depot, which services the 42 tube trains on the Victoria line. © Philip Wolmuth

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

05-01-2007 - Youth gathers bananas discarded for minor imperfections. He piles them up, and then throws them onto a truck for transport to local markets or Manila. He works on the Soyapa Farms banana plantation in... © David Bacon

24-10-2006 - Dogfish are thrown back into the water as they are not edible. On board a fishing trawler in the Irish Sea. The four-man crew work on one of the last remaining trawlers in Fleetwood, Lancashire. © Justin Tallis

24-10-2006 - Birds follow behind to collect disguarded fish from a fishing trawler in the Irish Sea. A four-man crew work on one of the last remaining trawlers in Fleetwood, Lancashire. © Justin Tallis

23-10-2006 - Bringing in the nets on board a fishing trawler in the Irish Sea. The four-man crew work on one of the last remaining trawlers in Fleetwood, Lancashire. © Justin Tallis

10-09-2006 - Water shortage. Low levels at Weir Wood reservoir, near East Grinstead. Southern Water. Discarded shoe and footprints in the cracked and dried up mud. © John Harris

10-09-2006 - Water shortage. Low levels at Weir Wood reservoir, near East Grinstead. Southern Water. Discarded shoe and footprints in the cracked and dried up mud. © John Harris

10-09-2006 - Water shortage. Low levels at Weir Wood reservoir, near East Grinstead. Southern Water. Discarded shoe in the cracked and dried up mud. © John Harris

10-09-2006 - Water shortage. Low levels at Weir Wood reservoir, near East Grinstead. Southern Water. Discarded shoe and footprints in the cracked and dried up mud. © John Harris

10-09-2006 - Water shortage. Low levels at Weir Wood reservoir, near East Grinstead. Southern Water. Discarded shoe in the cracked and dried up mud. © John Harris

10-09-2006 - Water shortage. Low levels at Weir Wood reservoir, near East Grinstead. Southern Water. Discarded shoe in the cracked and dried up mud. © John Harris

08-08-2006 - A vandalised car in the Afan Forest Park, Wales. © Paul Box

02-01-2006 - Fuck Europe Graffiti at Fleetwood Docks, Lancashire. Protesting at the The European Unions Common Fisheries Policy CFP © Justin Tallis

05-12-2005 - Oil tanker off the beach, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire. Shipping industry waste washed up on the beach. © Paul Box

26-10-2005 - Discarded tyres lie on mudflats in the tidal River in the Lower Lea Valley, site of the 2012 Olympic Games. © Philip Wolmuth

26-10-2005 - Discarded tyres lie on mudflats in the tidal River in the Lower Lea Valley, site of the 2012 Olympic Games. © Philip Wolmuth

07-05-2005 - Street cleaner reading a leaflet on the pensions crisis, Westminster Council London © Stefano Cagnoni

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

05-01-2005 - Fly Tipping - dumping of domestic and trade waste illegally, Barnet London © Duncan Phillips

23-10-2003 - Children's bicycles at a recycling centre at a rubbish tip. Warwickshire. © John Harris

15-08-1999 - Drug users syringe and homemade pipe found on the stairwells of flats Kings Cross London. © Duncan Phillips

01-04-1991 - Litter washed up on a stony beach. In the background there is a ship in the docks. © Paul Carter

01-04-1991 - An old car tyre littering the beach. In the background there is a docked ship. © Paul Carter

26-03-1987 - Pensioners and homeless mooching, The Bull Ring, 1987 trying to find edible food discarded by market traders at the end of the day to supplement their low income. The Bull Ring Shopping Centre Birming... © John Harris

26-03-1987 - Pensioners and homeless mooching, The Bull Ring, 1987 trying to find edible food discarded by market traders at the end of the day to supplement their low income. The Bull Ring Shopping Centre Birming... © John Harris

12-03-1987 - Pensioners and homeless mooching, The Bull Ring, 1987. Homeless man mooching - trying to find edible food discarded by market traders at the end of the day, The Bull Ring Market, Shopping Centre Birmi... © John Harris

12-03-1987 - Unemployed looking for food Bull Ring Market Birmingham 1987 searching amongst the market traders discarded rubbish at the end of the day © John Harris

13-02-1979 - Winter of Discontent 1979. Rubbish piling up, Leicester Square, Central London, an official collection centre, during the refuse collectors strike. © Peter Arkell

13-02-1979 - Winter of Discontent 1979. Rubbish piling up, Leicester Square, Central London, an official collection centre, during the refuse collectors strike. Jaws 2 film cinema billboard © Peter Arkell

09-02-1979 - Winter of Discontent, 1979. Rubbish piling up, Leicester Square, Central London, an official collection centre, during the refuse collectors strike. © Peter Arkell

18-08-1969 - Children from travellers families playing together 1969 fun among discarded furniture on their site on the outskirts of London. © Thurston Hopkins

18-08-1969 - Children from travellers families playing together 1969 fun among discarded furniture on their site on the outskirts of London © Thurston Hopkins

10-09-1961 - Well dressed woman and discarded artworks of nude women in large bins, West End London 1961 © Romano Cagnoni

10-09-1961 - Well dressed woman and discarded artworks of nude women in large bins, West End London 1961 © Romano Cagnoni