Plastic waste, Inchbelle
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Plastic waste, Inchbelle
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 30 Sep 2011
There is a lot of plastic visible in this field, and it looks old. There are some washing up liquid bottles from the past here, and this suggests that this was once a landfill site, like the one just to the north. How long will it be before these are mined for their valuable plastics?
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Image Location
Latitude
55.949989
Longitude
-4.133059