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Sat 10 Oct 2009Recycling Works
GREEN THINKING: ‘YOU GET ALL SORTS HERE. A while back there was a dead cat and the other week there was a cartridge full of bullets.”
Beside us, a conveyor belt of detritus, aluminium cans, plastic bottles, newspapers and household bills chunders relentlessly past. A team of workers picks out the non-recyclables (including cats and bullets) that have made it this far through the process, and places them in a separate bin. This is perhaps the calmest room in a warehouse filled with clanking and whirring at Greyhound Recycling’s Regional Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) at the Merrywell Industrial Estate in Ballymount, Dublin.
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