Collecting garbage, separating recycling and selling it on the way to the Transfer Station or Landfill

Roma Norte, Mexico City

Municipal garbage collectors sort recycling behind their truck. They attach the bags and super sacks of aluminum, PET, HDPE, mixed rigids, and paper to anywhere they can on the truck. No separate recycling trucks in Mexico. "Run what you brung" (using the resources you have) 

Oaxaca City, Oaxaca Mexico

The industrious gentlemen who owned this PET and OCC recycling facility on the outskirts of Oaxaca would not let me take photos but he had quite and impressive operation. Horizontal baler with a conveyor and a Plastics sort line with a conveyor. He had about 10 people working for him. The most technology I've yet to see in a my travels.

 A scrap metals yard. Also on the outskirts of Oaxaca, on the route to the landfill. 

Farther down the road on the way to the landfill. Dozens of garbage trucks are parked by the dozens of recycling buyers. The trucks sell their material to the highest bidder, or family members who own the buying facilities. These facilities range in size and infrastructure. The one pictured here was small and had no technology. Buyers would combine like materials and sell them to the bigger buyers with balers who would then ship and market materials.