Documentary Planet Garbage

this pic shows how the pedestrian, acquisitive members of society dispose of stolen property
the ducks only showed up to be fed, otherwise they remained unimpressed
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Rolf,

The title of this thread -- Planet Garbage -- tripped a switch in my head and reminded me of an idea I had for some documentary work that I never pursued. I'm passing it along, in case it is something that might interest you.

The idea would be to start with a piece of garbage from your own kitchen -- a cereal box, an empty can, bread wrapper, whatever you are throwing away -- and follow it to its ultimate destination . . . into the waste bin in your kitchen, to the garbage can or bag, to the truck the collects the garbage . . . where does the truck take it? To a landfill? A recycling center? What happens to it once it reaches that destination? And on and on, until it reaches wherever it is finally disposed of, destroyed, or recycled.

Could be very interesting and photographically challenging.

Cheers, Jock
 
Jock Elliott said:
Rolf,

The title of this thread -- Planet Garbage -- tripped a switch in my head and reminded me of an idea I had for some documentary work that I never pursued. I'm passing it along, in case it is something that might interest you.

The idea would be to start with a piece of garbage from your own kitchen -- a cereal box, an empty can, bread wrapper, whatever you are throwing away -- and follow it to its ultimate destination . . . into the waste bin in your kitchen, to the garbage can or bag, to the truck the collects the garbage . . . where does the truck take it? To a landfill? A recycling center? What happens to it once it reaches that destination? And on and on, until it reaches wherever it is finally disposed of, destroyed, or recycled.

Could be very interesting and photographically challenging.

Cheers, Jock
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This is an attractive idea, Jock, and would have been quite feasible years ago, when everything from arsenic to cyanide was disposed of at the local dumpsite.
Nowadays things get separated either by me or the recycling firms, so I cannot follow the stuff to its final destination without having to do a lot of research and get the necessary permissions to take photographs.
In fact I started some time ago at a recycling center where the boss was willing to give me his ok.
When I had my way worked through that junk yard I was overwhelmed by the mass of superfluous stuff. I then decided not to find out where that junk came from and where it went to get reused. Simply too much of a task for a single person.
 
Here it is rotated for you. Just download and replace the other with it. You have to rotate it before you post it.
If you want to do it yourself in future, open it with IrfanView or the Windows Photoviewer and click on "turn left".
 

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Walter Palmer said:
Sorry. I can't see how to get it to rotate.
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I'm not sure, but I think this is a smartphone shot - so (among many other options), Polarr is an easy choice to get that option. The free version does what you need. I haven't used Snapseed for rotating, so I simply don't know if it's available, but I think it should be. However, Polarr makes free rotation easy as well.

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