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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
    EGY_030524_014_x.jpg
  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect.
    EGY_030524_013_x.jpg
  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood. Here goats and sheep are eating a supplement of grain in a trough in the street.
    EGY_030524_011_x.jpg
  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
    EGY_030524_005_x.jpg
  • Boston, Massachusetts. Cans litter Revere Beach, after high school graduation night. Pollution, recycling.
    USA_POLL_2_xs.jpg
  • New York City, NY. Photo exhibit by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, in Times Square, of One Week's Recycling & Trash of Eight US families.
    USA_NY_140410_096.jpg
  • New York City, NY. Photo exhibit by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, in Times Square, of One Week's Recycling & Trash of Eight US families.
    USA_NY_140410_051.jpg
  • The desert near the landfill dump in El Paso, Texas is littered with plastic and paper blown from the dumpsite. Pollution, recycling.
    USA_POLL_1_xs.jpg
  • Profilarbed, S.A. Steel Mill in Luxembourg. Makes steel from scrap metal with an electric furnace. Profilarbed is now part of the Groupe Arcelor.
    LUX_070413_032_rwx.jpg
  • Scrap metal junkyard in the Kuwaiti desert with 100,000 of the 300,000 cars destroyed from the Iraqi war. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser, seen here with a pan of gold plated parts recovered from computers, was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_72_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_69_xs.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_194_rwx.jpg
  • Litto's Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley, Napa County, California. USA  California Landmark plaque reads: This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around the hubcap ranch are constructions and arrangements of hubcaps, bottles and pulltops, which proclaim that Litto, the Pope Valley Hubcap King, was here. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 93.MODEL RELEASED. Photographed in 1982.
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  • Visiting friends flank Litto Damonte at Litto's Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley, Napa County, California. A California Landmark plaque reads: This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around the hubcap ranch are constructions and arrangements of hubcaps, bottles and pulltops, which proclaim that Litto, the Pope Valley Hubcap King, was here..California Registered Historical Landmark No. 93.MODEL RELEASED. Photographed in 1982.
    USA_ART_07_xs.jpg
  • Litto's Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley, Napa County, California. A California Landmark plaque reads: This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around the hubcap ranch are constructions and arrangements of hubcaps, bottles and pulltops, which proclaim that Litto, the Pope Valley Hubcap King, was here. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 939 MODEL RELEASED. Photographed in 1982.
    USA_ART_06_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of a junkyard in Barstow, California. Auto dismantling yard.
    USA_AERL_28_xs.jpg
  • Emil Gerhke, Grand Coulee, Washington. Local resident Emil Gehrke made numerous decorative windmills from scrap. As he is now deceased, his collection sits in a fenced enclosure in a roadside park near Grand Coulee. USA.
    USA_ART_09_xs.jpg
  • Don Knapp, owner of Urban Ore Recycling Company. Berkeley, California. "I see a bright future for recycling: no waste, 100% recycling." Recycled building material and household items for sale.  MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_RECY_3_xs.jpg
  • Urban Ore Recycling Company. Recycled building material and household items for sale. Don Knapp, owner with dog Sam. Berkeley, California. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
    USA_RECY_2_xs.jpg
  • Urban Ore Recycling Company. Recycled building material and household items for sale. Berkeley, California. USA.
    USA_RECY_1_xs.jpg
  • Collecting bottle sna can for recycling money in Oslo, Norway.
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_201_rwx.jpg
  • Potsdam, NY. Recycling & Trash Exhibit on Earth Day at the State University of New York.
    USA_NY_190405_17.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_205_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_195_rwx.jpg
  • Used tires entering a prototype burning-burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. A tire mountain containing around 40 million tires dominates the landscape (background); the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc- containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_66_xs.jpg
  • Mountain of used tires at a prototype tire- burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. The mountain contains around 40 million tires & the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc-containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_64_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two-story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_03_xs.jpg
  • Mountain of used tires at a prototype tire- burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. The mountain contains around 40 million tires & the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc-containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_65_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_4a_120_xs.jpg
  • View from mount Hamilton road "$" sculpture made from recycled computers. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_04_xs.jpg

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