ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how waste handling is organised at recycling stations. Its main focus is to analyse the new professional role of recycling workers, a role that is not only technical, but highly social. It also provides a glimpse into how citizens perceive the act of visiting recycling stations. In industrial society, materials come into the system in large part as virgin raw materials. A recycling station is in all its aspects the opposite of a factory it is an anti-factory, a dis-assembly line. Once the waste is sorted, companies buy the recycled material and reuse, recycle or refine the products in a number of ways. The recycling workers produce value, but they also produce order. The order is of two kinds, the first being material order the clean bins. The second is the social order the citizen's responsibility and the level of education of the customers on the stations.
