A Selection of Trash Images

My colleague from Denník N and I got a chance to look into a plastic waste plant near Bratislava, where workers and machines sort disposed plastic to then recycle or sell to other processing companies. I have decided to share my view of the story through a blog as we’ve used a different selection of images for the original story run in the newspaper.

Sorted waste for recycling. What cannot be recycled or used otherwise ends up in the incinerator, from which you can only see the chimney in the background. Description source - My dear colleague Tomas Grecko.

Dump trucks bring about 30 tons of waste to the plant every day.

City residents often pollute recycle bins with contents which don’t belong there, so the workers at the plant have to pick out the unsuitable pieces.

The selection line.

A machine automatically detects the character of waste and sorts it out accordingly.

Unwanted waste found in the recycle bins.

Sorted waste.

What is not recycled is burned in a neighbouring incinerator, technically called an Energy Recovery Facility. Description source - TG.