These heart-wrenching photographs show the appalling conditions at a landfill site where Bangladeshi children are forced to scavenge for valuables amongst the piles of rubbish . The pictures show people trying to make the best of a bad situation as the mounds of rubbish at the site in Dhaka have become an accepted part of their daily lives . The rubbish at Matuail , the largest waste site in Dhaka , is a product of over three and a half million people and 65 per cent of the total waste generated in the city . Scroll down for video . These heart-wrenching photographs show the appalling conditions at a landfill site where Bangladeshi children are forced to scavenge for valuables amongst the piles of rubbish . The pictures show people trying to make the best of a bad situation as the mounds of rubbish at the site in Dhaka have become an accepted part of their daily lives . Birds circle women looking among the trash for something valuble at the Matuail Landfill In Dhaka . Cristiano Ostinelli , the Italian photographer who recently visited the site , said : . 'The Landfill was almost all organic waste so the smell was just awful , it smelt like vomit . 'It was appalling to see children with rags of clothes with their hands in something inexplicable . It was like hell on earth . ' Waste management workers only earn a dollar a day but amazingly , these conditions are an improvement . A young Boy makes the best of a bad situation at the Matuali Dump . The site was recently transformed from an open dump to a controlled landfill with perimeter drainage , site roads , site control offices and an electronic weighbridge . Incredibly all of the upgrading was done while Matuali received 1500 tonnes of waste per day and the site is now one of the best examples of a controlled waste site in South Asia . Photographer Cristiano Ostenilli said that the landfill site smelt like vomit . A slum child collects rubbish for resale from the dump yard . Ostenilli described the dump as being 'like hell on earth ' Two years ago , local government made the decision to upgrade the standard of disposal at the site utilizing finances from the Japanese debt-cancellation fund . The site was transformed from an open dump to a controlled landfill with perimeter drainage , site roads , site control offices and an electronic weighbridge . Incredibly all of the upgrading was done while Matuali received 1500 tonnes of waste per day and the site is now one of the best examples of a controlled waste site in South Asia .
Images show appalling conditions at a landfill at Matuail in Dhaka . It 's the product of one people 's rubbish . The waste is nearly all organic , so the smell is horrific , said photographer .