An ordinary late afternoon. A group of friends talk, laugh, live. A PET bottle runs empty. Someone, without a word, walks to the yellow recycling bin and drops it in. The sound of plastic hitting metal echoes for a moment. Then dark. Silence. It seems like an end. Time passes. The truck arrives. The bottle is pulled into the light and enters the rhythm of machines. The film finds its pulse. As the bottle passes the driver who made the collection, we pause. We go back to his morning: the street still dark, a jacket pulled on in a hurry, the high-visibility vest, hands on the wheel before sunrise. At home, quiet signs of another life. Nothing is explained. It’s just life. We return to the present. At the facility, everything accelerates. Conveyor belts, noise, metal, repetition. The bottle joins thousands of others until it reaches the hands of a sorting operator.
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