Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: waste

A panoramic crop of a 35mm format digital image.

- but gum is horrible to pick off the soles of humans' shoes too.

Real colour. I hope that those pallets are going back to be re-used.

A grittier alternative view. I am not getting at the Premier local food store. Everything looks as neat as it can be, allthough the bins look a bit overfilled. Getting rid of packaging is a universal issue. Thankfully there are more and more recycling initiatives being developed.

The energy recovery facility burns household waste to generate electricity. All the plant is hidden under the large aluminium dome. The gas-fired power station was originally oil fired.

The scrap metal collected by the Gomera will be going to be processed in Germany or Portugal probably.

There used to be regular collections of commercial waste (as opposed to domestic waste, which goes into the incinerator) from this wharf. Then there was a fire in one of the large storage sheds, which took almost a week to extinguish. Since then the traffic seems to have almost vanished, although a new shed has been built. The scrap metal shipments from the other end of the harbour, at South Quay, don't seem to keep up with the deliveries that come in by road. The heaps of metal seem to be growing, although there is nearly always a freighter, in port, loading.

An unusual subject for a panorama perhaps, cropped from a 35mm format photo.