Garbage dump, Hvar island, Croatia, Southeast Europe

Waste combustion facility of the community heating company of Vienna designed by the austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Vienna Austria

Waste combustion facility of the community heating company of Vienna designed by the austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Vienna Austria

Waste combustion facility of the community heating company of Vienna designed by the austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Vienna Austria

Temporary storage facility for radioactive waste, Ahaus, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

The Mueller-Guttenbrunn Metal Recycling facility in Amstetten, Austria. This is where electronics goods as well as cars and other appliances are sent for recycling under the European Waste Electrics Electronics Equipment (WEEE) Initiative. All electronics goods must be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.

Electronics recycling facility Metran in Kematen, Austria is where metals and plastics are sorted after the waste is first shredded at Mueller-Guttenbrunn in Amstetten. At a shake table the waste is separated by friction as hard items drop through first because they have less friction. The drum turns and small objects drop through the holes. Large piles of e-waste plastics objects and circuit boards. Avci Bilal walks atop a pile of e-waste that is waiting to be processed at Metran.

Electronics recycler Global Investment Recovery facility in Salley, South Carolina. The building was formally the Salley Manufacturing Plant, an apparel company that closed and moved operations to Honduras leaving about 100 people out of work. Global Investment Recovery refurbished the building and stated a state-of-the-art electronics recycling operation. They process all of the South Carolina government e-scrap for 21 cents a pound. Scott Dillon cleaning processors, most of which will be sold for reuse. On the right side is hard drives that are wiped 7 times and will be resold. Terry Davis shrink wraps monitors, most of which will be sent overseas for reuse.

Dry Cask storage. Twelve dry casks in a storage facility at Prairie Island Nuclear Generationg Station, MN.

A group of young children gather outside their humble dwellings in India with a Nuclear Plant Facility in the background.

Pit viper Engineer Carl Baker at the controls of the compact remote console of the pit viper at the HAMMER facility, Hanford Nuclear Site, WA. This unit will be used to remotely upgrade pipe fitting in the tank farm. There are 600 pits in the tank farm which are used to transfer waste between tanks.

The remote handling of spent fuel in the K Basin. The facility takes almost all the water out of the cannister by heating the water and replacing it with helium. The fuel has been in the water for many years and it is important to get the water out of the fuel for safe storage.

The Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF), a low level waste facility at Hanford Nuclear Site, WA. The trucks are carrying mostly soil but also some misc. equipment taken from the decommissioning work at Hanford.

Bear River Solar Aquatics Wastewater Treatment Facility, uses green technology to turn waste water into fresh water. Bear River, Nova Scotia

Livestock - Aerial view of an aeration pond, part of the waste treatment system at a poultry production facility / near Princeton, Missouri, USA.