Smoky Mountain Rubbish Dump, Phnom Penh

Workers sort the different metals and plastic from each other, once bagged in their proper place they will be made into bricks or bagged as one material for recycling. Big distribution warehouse for aluminium cans, and general metals, and plasticon the edge of Phnom Penh. Aluminium cans are sold with a street value of about 1$ the kilo, the small warehouse add 10% and all the cans are shipped. already sorted to the big distribution recycling warehouses outside Phnom Penh. Here the aluminium cans are squashed into bricks and stacked or placed in mountains for export to Thailand and Vietnam for truning back into the raw material.

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Contained in galleries: Recycling Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Workers sort the different metals and plastic from each other, once bagged in their proper place they will be made into bricks or bagged as one material for recycling. Big distribution warehouse for aluminium cans, and general metals, and plasticon the edge of Phnom Penh. Aluminium cans are sold with a street value of about 1$ the kilo, the small warehouse add 10% and all the cans are shipped. already sorted to the big distribution recycling warehouses outside Phnom Penh. Here the aluminium cans are squashed into bricks and stacked or placed in mountains for export to Thailand and Vietnam for truning back into the raw material.