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In the West, 95% of broken Monoblocs end up in the trash, which isn´t the worst thing: Polypropylene is a thermoplast and can be recycled easily if the trash is properly sorted. In other regions of the world, the price of a plastic chair often equals a day´s work salary or more, and people go to great lengths trying to keep the furniture. Below a short richly illustrated look at different approaches.
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An image (click to enlarge) Christian Y. Schmidt took in June 2007, when he traveled from Shanghai to Kathmandu along China´s equivalent to the US Route 66 – the national road 318. In the photo the bank of the Three Gorges Reservoir in Wanzhou, a city that largely descended into the reservoir when the water level rose. In Christian´s book “Allein unter 1,3 Milliarden” he describes the place and the atmosphere half-way through the process quite poignantly.

