Batgung

Hong Kong has an odd relationship with recycling. On one hand, many people drop litter without thinking. On the other, if what's dropped has any value as scrap material, someone will pick it out and sell it long before it reaches the landfill.

This photo shows part of a bale of crushed drinks cans, waiting outside the local scrap collector's shop until the truck comes to take it away. Some came from the old people you see scavenging for cans in public litter bins. Some may be from your apartment block, picked out by the people who collect the rubbish late at night.