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Two say bye to trees
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/xmastreessandy630.jpgMark and Matt McCoy from Sandycove, Dublin, at the Christmas tree recycling centre at Sandymount in the first few days of 2013. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
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Getting the message
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/elephant630.gifAn elephant munches on Christmas trees in her enclosure at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten zoo in the first days of 2013. The elephants reportedly get these tasty festive leftovers every year… Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
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Taking a breather
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/busybees630.jpgA black and white portrait of workers, taken for the New York Times, having a break at the Busy Bees furniture recycling centre on the Crumlin Road in Dublin, which provides work through an unemployment scheme. Photograph: Adam Ferguson/New York Times
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Waste does not compute
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/computers630.jpgAn employee dismantles old computers at a Sims Recycling facility in Roseville, California, US. Sims receives much of its material from Green Citizen, a company that collects and disposes of old electronics in the San Francisco Bay area. The pieces are put through shredders and broken-down materials are then sold to companies seeking aluminum, plastic, glass or other recycled material. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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On the disassembly line
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/line630.jpgEmployees sort through crushed electronic components for recyclable electronic materials at the Sims Recycling facility in Roseville. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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iNeed a new phone
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/iphone630.jpgAn employee assembles a recycled Apple iPhone at the Green Citizen recycling facility in Burlingame, California, US. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Car wars
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/carsjunk630.jpgA crane lifts a car body at the Scholz scrap metal recycling plant in Espenhain, Germany. Low steel consumption in Europe is eating into ferrous recyclers' margins, an EU industry body has said. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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Books... and where to put them
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/books630.jpgJan Eischen, a volunteer at Friends of the Public Library, tosses books into a bin in Cincinnati, Ohio. Librarians are struggling with the task of redefining their roles in the digital age. Photograph: Tyler Bissmeyer/New York Times
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Laying down their arms
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/guns630.jpgHand guns that were turned in by their owners in a trash bin at a “gun buyback” held by the Los Angeles Police Department in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last month. People can anonymously trade in their guns, no questions asked, and get $200 grocery store gift cards for automatic weapons or $100 gift cards for shotguns, handguns and rifles. Photograph: David McNew/Reuters
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Off to a better place
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/throwgun630.jpgA police officer tosses a modified gun into a trash bin at the Los Angeles Police Department gun buyback last month. Photograph: David McNew/Reuters
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Survival instinct
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/childmyanmar630.jpgA girl looks for useful items at a waste dump near a copper mine in Sarlingyi township in Burma last month. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
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Carbon credit
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/carbon630.jpgResearch assistant Fabian Limonchi checks equipment on a 42m observation tower in the Tambopata National Reserve in the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios, Peru, last month. Scientists and students are conducting research into carbon recycling and dynamics of the rainforest from the tower, which, according to the researchers, is the first of its kind in the Amazon rainforest outside Brazil. Photograph: Mariana Bazo/Reuters
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Recyclers and Rousseff
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/brazil630.jpgBrazil's President Dilma Rousseff at a Christmas celebration with homeless people who make a living from collecting goods for recycling in Sao Paulo. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
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Race against waste goes on...
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/timesq630.jpgWorkmen clean up garbage and confetti left behind from new year celebrations in Times Square in New York. Photograph: Keith Bedford/Reuters
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...will we ever escape it?
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/brandenburg630.jpgA man walks through rubbish piled up next to the Brandenburger Tor gate in Berlin, Germany, after new year celebrations. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
