A charcoal maker rests for a cigarette break inside one of the kilns producing charcoal in Happyland, a large garbage dump in Manila. Most of the residents of Happyland collect recyclable materials such as plastics, bottles, and metal parts where they exchange them at nearby junk shops. They also salvage any wood from the dump and nearby construction sites for the charcoal makers to produce charcoal from. Scavengers earn a measly eighty pesos (USD 2.00) for a day's work while the charcoal makers are better off with two hundred pesos (USD 5.00). 