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Roadside dumps like this are, thankfully, less common every year (this one is now gone).
Yurok IR, near Weitchpec, CA (1992).
Rural areas with no garbage collection have a special problem of dumping.
near Anchor Bay, CA (1992).
No-one thinks when they let go of a helium balloon just where it will come down -- perhaps hundreds of miles away, in a national park.
Last Chance Range, near Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley NM, CA (1989).
The variety of stuff that people discard is truly amazing.
Yurok IR, near Martins Ferry, CA (1992).
There is no road to the Indian village of Supai, down inside the Grand Canyon, so garbage is lifted out by helicopter.
Supai, Havasupai IR, AZ (1989).