Between 2008 and 2010, he visited more than 460 landfills around Beijing and took about 10,000 photos. In 2011, his first documentary film about waste, Beijing Besieged by Waste, showed audiences the state of waste pollution in Beijing. Wang Jiuliang is a 34-year-old photographer who spent all of his money to document the landfills around Beijing and draw people's attention to problems caused by waste. In an interview with China Daily, Wang talked about his experience shooting the documentary and his opinion about waste pollution and consumption behavior.

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