Punta del Diablo, a small seaside town in Uruguay. |
The truck came round to collect every day. |
Uruguayan version of a Nor'easter AND a face mask. |
Montevideo street market : colour coded for recycling. |
Photos and captions from Bill.
A garbage can, a waste container, a dumpster, a recycling bin, a green bin. A temporary place to store waste before it is trucked or shipped or flown or hauled around and dumped or buried or burned or made into something else. If the waste we create says something about ourselves and a place, what can we also learn from these temporary storage containers?
Buenos Aires street bin. The little stickers are ads for personal services of a dubious nature. Part of the beat cops' duties is to pull them off. |
Happy street cleaners in Cordoba. Keeping the streets clean is a big deal, with garbage pick up every day, and there are always plenty of cleaners working, perhaps because of the heat. |
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