Garbage Truck

Published 02/18/2023 12:00

Provider TaiwanPlus

This is rare to see the whole process of waste disposal from start to finish, we learn it along the way but also how unusual the ordinary is. The relationship of the garbage truck crew, their hardships, and their happiness. The team unfolds what we can’t see, their insights into how the “Garbage Island” as some referred to Taiwan a few decades ago became one of the recycling leaders in the region of South East Asia. The current waste disposal system makes Taiwan a unique and intriguing place where people come to throw their trash only when classical music starts to play. Also who never had the urge to sit inside the garbage truck and see the world from the perspective of the driver? _ Director: Stefan Maurycy WĘGIEŁEK Producer: Stefan Maurycy WĘGIEŁEK

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