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NARRATOR:We start our journey in the Indian town of Rishikesh.

The small town with about 70,000 inhabitants

is about 220km away from the capital New Delhi.

The River Ganges flows through the town

and every year thousands of pilgrims come here to pray at its holy banks.

In 1968 this place suddenly got famous

when the Beatles came here.

They lived in an ashram, a kind of monastery,

and we're setting out to find this place.

- Beatles ashram? - Beatles ashram? Yes, yes.

- OK. Very good.

- There it is. - Cool.

- Stop here? - Yes, stop here.

NARRATOR:We couldn't make an appointment in advance,

so first of all we ask if we're allowed to film.

The signs say that we have to pay an entrance fee.

For Indians, it is about $2

and for tourists it is $8.

But the guard looks sceptically at our camera.

We're allowed to come in, but our camera isn't.

So we'll try again the next day.

A little way away from the riverbank,

we set off our drone.

And we see a huge area with odd-looking domed structures.

Everything seems to be deserted.

A razorwire fence surrounds the whole facility.

We're excited to see if we'll still be able to find

any traces of the Beatles.

We're driving back into town in order to find a hotel.

On our way, we notice how many ashrams there are here.

Everywhere, yoga centres are advertising their courses.

Rishikesh is a real magnet for tourists.

But what makes this place so special?

We ask a real Indian tourist.

# THE BEATLES: "Come Together"#

- Every Hindu should visit this place at least once in his life.

But it so happens that once you come here,

you feel like coming here again and again.

It's like you don't feel like going back.

NARRATOR: To find out what to expect in the Beatles ashram tomorrow,

we're visiting one of the most popular ashrams in town.

Thousands of pilgrims come here every year.

A holiday in an ashram is very popular among Indian

and foreign tourists alike.

Many stay here for a couple of weeks

and everyone only pays what they can afford.

We're meeting one of the employees, Laurie.

She explains the rules to us.

- And are there some kind of rules if I come to the ashram?

- Well, there are a few rules, very minimal, OK?

As you might be aware, Rishikesh is a designated holy city.

Consequently, there are no legal alcohol sales.

It is vegetarian, so there is no meat or fish or eggs.

NARRATOR:These are the same rules that applied to the Beatles.

And the day is completely structured.

The food is vegetarian and the same for everybody.

Also the same as when the Beatles were here.

Today, deep-fried potatoes, a vegetable curry,

rice and a spicy flatbread are on the menu.

The price, 80 cents for lunch and 20 cents for coffee.

Some only come here to eat.

We go looking for someone who actually lives here.

- Hi. Sorry. May I ask you a question?

- Yeah, of course.

-Are you staying here at the ashram?

- I don't know yet. -Do you want to?

- Yeah. - Why?

- I'm a big Beatles fan. - A big Beatles fan?

NARRATOR:The next morning, we are on our way to the Beatles ashram,

this time with Vincent.

He's a big fan and wants to play one of their songs where they stayed,

preferably where they slept.

Again, we ask for permission to shoot here.

And this time we're allowed.

The guard gets a little pocket money of 3,000 rupees, around 40 dollars,

and we're allowed to film inside the ashram.

So this is the place where the Beatles were.

The four Englishmen were the most famous popstars back then,

and wherever the band showed up, mass hysteria broke out.

Their song Yesterday is the most covered pop song of all time!

# "Yesterday" #

NARRATOR:Although everything here looks as if it were from yesterday,

back then this place was quite luxurious.

There was even electricity.

So these strange-looking structures used to be real houses

with two storeys.

Downstairs there is a small room that was used for sleeping in.

And the view from upstairs is phenomenal.

Apparently the Beatles slept somewhere here. But in which house?

We carry on walking across the compound

and see that there are over 100 honeycomb houses.

- Do you know where the Beatles stayed when they were here?

- I think over there.

If you go straight, there's a house.

And it says that the Beatles stayed over there.

- OK, it's behind the meditation hall on the left side?

- You have to go straight. - OK. Thanks.

NARRATOR:But on the way, there is more to see.

There is this abandoned hall in the middle of nowhere.

But what is this supposed to be?

In order to find out, we have a look inside.

# "Let It Be" #

NARRATOR:According to the walls, many Beatles fans were already here.

This building, too, was used as accommodation.

But we can't find any clues that the Beatles slept here.

The stairs take us up to the roof.

In these domes. it was possible to meditate in the shade,

as the sun burns down relentlessly here.

We carry on searching for the Beatles house.

But on the way, we first find where Maharishi Mahesh Yogi lived.

He used to be the boss here back then.

With his meditation technique, he became very famous in the '60s.

In order to understand what fascinated the Beatles so much

about a guru, we join into an aarti.

In these, the guru meets his followers at the riverbank to pray.

We have asked for an interview, but the guru will not decide yet

if he is going to speak to us afterwards.

Then everything happens very fast.

We are picked up. The guru wants to speak to us.

- Welcome home! - Thank you.

(music)

NARRATOR: We are not alone with the guru,

but in a small elected group.

We have to write our questions down first

and are then allowed to ask one of them.

- I would like to know why do people look for a guru?

NARRATOR:Not the Guru himself, but one of his assistants

answers the question.

- The word "guru" literally means "the remover of darkness".

And so as we look at it,

we ask ourselves what darkness...

.. what darkness is it..

that we are needing to remove?

NARRATOR:A guru like this has a big attractive force.

Just like the Beatles, we too are fascinated by it.

# "Ticket To Ride" #

NARRATOR:Since 1990, there's been mo guru at the Beatles ashram.

Now they are looking for a new one.

New life is meant to return here.

On our search for the Beatles house,

we find the meditation hall where everyone comes together

in the morning.

The Beatles lived here for several weeks.

48 songs were composed in this time.

To be able to have some peace and quiet,

there are over 50 meditation cells.

It was possible to retreat to these to meditate,

sometimes for days at a time.

Now we want to finally find the house of the Beatles.

But first we come across another hall that is covered in graffiti.

Beatles fans drew these,

but originally this place was used for prayer.

And in India this is always done with lots of music.

- How cool is that? (guitar music)

- (man sings)

(rhythmic music)

NARRATOR:This inspired the Beatles to many songs back in the day.

We want to now finally find their house.

- Is this the place where they stayed?

- No...I don't know. - OK.

NARRATOR:We simply can't find it by ourselves.

So we ask the guard at the entrance.

- Do you know where John Lennon slept?

- Nine number. Upside.

Number two gate. 9,10,11,12. They slept upstairs.

NARRATOR:So the Beatles really slept in a little hut like this.

We search for number nine... and really find it!

A fan painted John Lennon's portrait here.

And finally Vincent can fulfil his dream.

The four mega stars will also have sat here 48 years ago

to play the guitar.

# "Here Comes The Sun" #

NARRATOR:Suzhou in China.

Three hours' drive away from Shanghai,

an exact copy of London's Tower Bridge can be found.

We want to see what this copy is all about.

How close to the original are the replicas of well-known landmarks?

First of all, the two do a selfie test.

Will other people notice that they aren't actually in London?

Most don't notice.

But if they looked closely, they would notice something.

Opposed to the original from the River Thames,

this bridge is supported by four and not two pillars.

But if observed from the right angle,

the replica looks deceptively genuine.

All around the bridge, we see dozens of wedding couples

and numerous photographers.

The fake landmark seems to be a real hotspot

when it comes to souvenir pictures.

(woman speaks Chinese)

NARRATOR: But that's not the end of it.

NARRATOR:For the Chinese, it is difficult to get a European visa.

So they just make Europe come to them!

But not only Europe. Las Vegas is also not far.

In Macao, a replica of the famous gambling city is being built.

We want to find out if the Chinese clone

can keep up with the American original.

Since 2001, gambling has been legal in Macao.

Since then, investors have been busy building replicas.

The famous Venetian is even bigger than the original:

It is the biggest casino in the world.

But the original strip in Las Vegas has a length of 6.8 kilometres.

In Macao, the street where the casinos are located

is a mere 900 metres long.

So, the dimensions here are completely different.

But can at least the replica of the Venetian live up to its name?

Just as in America, the aim was to create an atmosphere

like in Venice. So we are in the Chinese imitation

of the American imitation of Venice. Can this work?

(romantic music)

Atleast finding our room is similar to the real Las Vegas experience.

It takes us almost 20 minutes to reach our suite on the 39th floor.

And we can't complain about the suite itself at all.

54 square metres of finest Italian flair.

But at about $250, they are significantly more expensive

than their American counterparts.

All in all, the biggest casino in the world does impress us

with its size of around seven football fields.

And after dark, some atmosphere does arise,

even though more artists than tourists are out on the strip.

(cheering)

NARRATOR:Everyone seems to be inside the gambling halls

with their 3,400 machines and 800 gaming tables.

But sometimes merely copying the original just isn't enough,

even though it might look quite nice at night.

We're leaving China and we're travelling on to the USA.

Our journey starts in the middle of nowhere

in the state of West Virginia, USA.

The small village of Green Bank barely has 500 inhabitants

and it is cut off from the outside world in a mysterious way...

..because mobile usage or internet surfing are forbidden,

and not only are they forbidden, but nothing actually functions!

While our reporters film impressions of the village,

this strange vehicle comes up to them.

- Excuse me, gentlemen. Are you using some sort of wireless device

or something with wifi in it that's on one of your cameras or whatever?

- I think the camera, is that the problem?

- Well, I was picking you up as I was doing a scan

for interference to the observatory and I saw one that said GoPro,

and that looks like a GoPro.

NARRATOR:Chuck Niday is Green Bank's radio signal police.

His truck is equipped with measurement devices

to locate radio signals like wifi or mobile phones.

- See right there? GoPro SSP.

That's probably your camera.

It has a very good signal here.

And your little device could cause an interference to the telescope.

NARRATOR: We turn off the camera'swifi

and are permitted to continue filming.

But devices that transmit radio signals are unwanted in Green Bank.

The reason is a very special research station,

to which Chuck will take us now.

The Robert C Byrd Green Bank telescope

is standing right in the middle of this small town.

It's the largest radio telescope in the world.

This is where we meet Mike Holstine.

He is the technical director of this observatory, and he takes us along.

Thanks to him, we're allowed to get very close to the telescope.

But only with a diesel vehicle!

- The telescope is extremely sensitive

to any radio frequency interference.

The gasoline engine has a spark plug

that provides the combustion to allow the engine to go.

That spark in the spark plug

actually is a form of explosive energy.

So it gives off radio frequency interference

that the telescope can see.

It can drown out the data the astronomer is looking for.

NARRATOR:The telescope is 147 metres high.

The dish itself is as large as a soccer pitch.

The scientists receive radio signals from space.

These signals are very, very weak.

That's why the telescope is extremely sensitive.

The larger the dish of a telescope, the more sensitive it is.

Radio signals are invisible to the human eye.

With radio telescopes, scientists can look into other galaxies

as far away as ten billion light years.

- That's equivalent to the energy given off

by a single snow flake hitting the ground.

So a single cell phone on Mars

would be the brightest radio object to us in the sky.

NARRATOR:Universities and NASA use the telescope to learn more

about gas clouds, other galaxies and the sun.

Wolfgang Baudler, IT expert from Germany,

is jointly responsible for the computer centre.

Wolfgang has been working at the institute for 15 years.

Since then, he' been living in Green Bank, without a smartphone or wifi.

This National Radio Quiet Zone was installed in 1958.

In this area, any kind of electronic transmitters are prohibited.

The residents within spitting distance of the telescope

are not allowed to use wifi. Chuck Niday makes sure they don't.

But technological progress doesn't stop short of Green Bank.

(receiver hums)

- And we have one already. There's two, there's three. Four.

NARRATOR:Wifi or mobile phones

sending signals in a specific frequency range

interfere with the measurements.

- We go and ask if they'll shut it off.

Most of the time they will.

There are some that refuse.

We have no enforcement powers.

We can't tell people they have to turn off their device.

NARRATOR:If you use wifi, you have to pay a fine of 50 dollars.

Living without a mobile phone is unthinkable for many people,

especially for young people.

For the inhabitants of Green Bank, it's part of their everyday life.

Most people actually like it.

Debbie is 24 and works at the only supermarket in town.

She likes living in a mobile-free zone.

- I guess where I'm from, I was just used to having it all the time.

Here you just adapt to not needing it all the time.

I still have one, but for when I take trips.

So most of the time it stays in my purse.

It's so much more personal to talk face to face.

Your can see the emotion and the connection, you know.

NARRATOR:Communication in Green Bank is like in the good old days -

via landline and telephone booth.

Calling Debbie costs 50 cents.

She moved to Green Bank out of her free will,

because of the radio silence.

TV, microwave oven, coffee machine.

It's all there. What she doesn't have is wifi and a mobile phone.

- Bill paying is definitely an inconvenience.

I have to send everything off in envelope form, which is old-school.

You can pay your bills on the internet all the time,

like most people do.

NARRATOR:Debbie doesn't use the internet at all.

She makes appointments via landline telephone.

That takes some getting used to.

- I was making an appointment for my son at the allergy clinic.

Obviously I didn't get a hold of them,

so I'm gonna have to wait for them to call me back.

I can't just head out and drive down the road to work

or go pick up my son and have a call saying, "Bring him in!"

I have to wait by my phone at home or at work for their phone call.

NARRATOR:She also has to make concessions in her private life.

There are not many jobs in Green Bank.

That's why her husband works in a different state

and can only come home for the weekends.

But what do the local teenagers say,

growing up without modern technology?

We ask the kids at the local high school.

Many parents would probably be delighted to hear the answers.

- I think privileged to not have cell phones all the time,

because we're more connected with the community around us

and our environment.

I personally am glad I don't have to deal with having a cell phone.

NARRATOR:Teenagers who actually talk to one another,

instead of chatting on their mobile.

Maybe every school should be declared a no-go area

for electronic devices.

I like it. We shouldn't be able to be on the internet all the time.

It helps me be more social with everybody.

I know almost everybody in the school and I talk to them a lot.

Whereas I know in Greenery East, pretty close to here,

it's a big school. They hardly talk to anybody.

You talk to your friends and that's all you talk to.

I think it's good that we don't have internet.

NARRATOR:For the very first time,

the teenagers will experience at university

what it's like to be constantly online.

Debbie chose Green Bank on purpose.

She wants her son Colton to grow up

without the distraction of computers and the internet.

- In my opinion this is one of the best places to be and have children!

NARRATOR:The inhabitants of Green Bank live in their mysterious place

as if they were in a bubble

so the scientists can listen to sounds from outer space unhindered

and maybe one day find another form of life there.

From the USA, it's on to Natal in Brazil.

The city is known for its long sandy beaches and widespread dunes.

But apparently here there is also a One Tree Park.

We ask the locals.

- (speaks Portuguese)

NARRATOR:Cashew nuts are sold here in lots of variations

on every corner.

In this place, everything is about cashews!

So we can't be too far away from the One Tree Park anymore.

- (speaks Portuguese)

NARRATOR:A few kilometres on, we discover the viewing platform

that was also in the picture. We have arrived!

The view is tremendous.

And this is all supposed to be one tree?

From above, it looks more as if many trees were stood

very close together.

So we delve down into the park.

Underneath the leaves, it feels as if we were completely cut off

from the outside world.

Especially constructed paths lead through the many branches.

It feels like being in the woods.

From here, too, it looks more like many trees.

It is unbelievable that this is meant to be just one tree.

We speak to the head grounds-keeper Joao Maria.

He is the only person allowed to cut or clip anything here.

The giant cashew tree needs special attention

because the reason for its incredible growth

are two gene mutations.

So does this mean that the tree is sick?

- (speaks Portuguese)

NARRATOR:Some of the branches are so heavy and long

that they need to be supported in order for them not to break.

Normal cashew trees look like this. They grow to ten to 12 metres

and are relatively straight.

Only right at the end do they form the crown of the tree.

The centrepiece of the huge cashew tree is in the middle of the park.

The main stem.

We are in a sea of branches that hang in the air

and lie on the ground like snakes.

And they all have one origin - this tree trunk.

Over the past 115 years, the tree has spread to its current size

from this place.

By the way, the shape of its nuts is the reason for the name of the tree.

"Caju" means something like "kidney tree" in Portuguese.

And that's exactly what the kernels or the nuts of this tree look like.

Even outside of Brazil, everyone knows these nuts by now.

Less well known are the fruit of the cashew tree.

In Brazil, it is almost even more popular than the cashew nut.

From the outside, it looks a little bit like a pepper.

The special thing about the fruit:- the nuts aren't IN it,

but on TOP of the fruit.

It is possible to eat the fruit as a whole, including the skin.

The cashew fruit has a sort of solid pulp and no seeds.

During our visit, the fruit was out of season,

but at the beginning of the year, the giant cashew tree

is also full of fruit. But is it possible to eat them?

After all, the tree does have a gene defect.

Francisco Candoso tells us that it is.

He is the manager here and responsible for the park.

- (speaks Portuguese)

NARRATOR: In the shade of the main trunk,

the tourist guide tells us all about the evolution of the tree.

Who originally planted it isn't quite clear.

Some say that it was a fisherman named Luiz de Oliveira in 1888.

But there is also a type of small monkey that feed off the nuts.

As the outside of the nuts is poisonous and has to be removed,

the monkeys bury them until it has rotted away.

So maybe a buried nut was simply forgotten

and then this tree grew from it.

All attempts of growing another giant cashew tree from its seeds

have unfortunately failed to this day.

In Brazil, the tree is a huge attraction. 3,000 visitors per day

come to see the One Tree Park during the main season.

But the guide tells us that there is a problem.

The tree is simply growing far too quickly.

Per year, it grows one metre in every direction,

and around it, there isn't any more space.

If this continues, the tree will overgrow the whole neighbourhood

within the next decades.

For over ten years, the tree hasn't been cropped

for fear of destroying it.

It already reaches far into the street.

Which is cause for annoyance to the neighbours.

Because this already causes problems on the roads.

- (speaks Portuguese)

- (several residents speak)

NARRATOR:Of course for all the souvenir shops around the tree,

the many tourists are a blessing.

But in the area there are also many beach houses

and their owners have a different view of the situation.

The park owners would like to buy up the surrounding houses

and tear them down.

But many neighbours don't want this to happen.

- (speaks Portuguese)

NARRATOR:It is a dispute that has been ongoing for years.

How it will end, only time will tell.

And in the future, even more tourists could visit the tree.

At the moment an, application to the Guinness Book of Records

is being reviewed, if the tree may not only be called

the biggest cashew tree in the world, but, because of its yield,

the biggest fruit-bearing tree on Earth!

Apparently, the chances are pretty good.

Our journey takes us on to Israel...

..to the Negev Desert.

It takes up 60% of the country,

but only 10% of the population live here.

And then suddenly...bright green mountains.

Is this art? A garden?

Or maybe even toxic waste?

No. From close up, you can see, it is glass.

To be more exact, bottles and shards.

Tons of it. And right behind them, some kind of factory.

A quick look online shows us this isn't a mirage.

There are really tons of glass here in the middle of the desert.

The factory produces glass bottles for Coca Cola, for example.

To be able to do so, among other things it needs, recycled glass.

But what for, exactly?

And why is a huge bottle factory like this

located right in the desert? Isn't that completely crazy?

We want to take a closer look and drive to the desert factory.

It is a three-hour drive away from Tel Aviv in a small sleepy town.

In the factory we are first of all given protective gear.

Safety shoes and clothing, too. Despite the heat.

The outside temperature is at 45 degrees at the moment,

but safety is of the essence here,

as there are shards of glass lying around everywhere.

Production manager Rothschild Kaziav shows us the glass mounds

that we have up to now only seen in pictures.

Some of these are 15 metres high!

30,000 tons are lying around here, all sorted by colour,

depending on which colour of bottle is to be produced.

- Waste for others is gold for us.

The value of this broken glass this colour

is hundreds of thousands of dollars for us.

NARRATOR: Constantly new deliveries arrive.

Recycled glass is important for the production of new bottles

because if it has already melted once,

it will melt faster the second time.

Mixed with the other raw materials, this shortens the melting process

during the production. This saves energy and money.

For bottle production, it is enough if 90% is of the same colour.

Only when it comes to clear glass, it has to be 100%.

A single bottle of the wrong colour would ruin everything.

We even discover beer bottles from Germany.

The whole world is represented here.

Rothschild doesn't look at the labels

to know where the bottles originated from.

On each of them there are codes

with mysterious numbers and symbols only legible to insiders.

- You can see the year that the glass was produced,

you can see the sign of the factory

and also the mould number it was produced from.

So you pretty much have a lot of information on the bottle.

NARRATOR:We are battling with the heat - 45 degrees.

But we don't even suspect that this is nothing

compared to the heat inside the production plant

where coke bottles are being made right now.

It is somewhere between 70 and 100 degrees here.

But we will only find this out later.

For the sand, the most important raw material for the glass,

we first of all have to go even deeper into the desert.

The extraction site is inside this huge crater.

Three of these exist in Israel and they are unique in the world.

The oldest sand layers here are 200 million years old.

The dinosaurs probably already walked on them.

Back to the glass factory.

To make glass, except sand, you also need...

the recycled glass from the glass mounds outside the factory,

in this case, clear glass for the coke bottles.

Then limestone and other minerals like soda, dolomite rock and potash

are added, as well as colouring agents.

But not for clear glass, of course.

Everything is thoroughly mixed

and the compound is ready for the melting process.

Speaking of melting, we are too!

But it's only about to be really hot now. Off to the furnace!

- Guys, let's go. It's very noisy and very hot inside. Be careful.

NARRATOR:The production manager wasn't exaggerating.

It is between 70 and 100 degrees in the production area,

depending on where exactly you are.

After five minutes we feel like in a sauna.

Because it isn't just hot, but also too noisy for an interview.

We communicate via mobile phone!

Rothschild types "I love to sweat!" He must be a little bit crazy.

The reason for the incredible heat are the huge brick furnaces.

It takes a devilish 1,600 degrees to turn the sand mixture into glass.

It is only possible to look at this hellish fire

through a special foil or protective glasses.

Otherwise it would burn your eyeballs off.

If one were to stand here for too long,

one would at some point simply catch fire,

even if the flames aren't directly touched.

By now, our equipment is almost too hot to touch.

Two tripods have even melted.

In a decommissioned furnace, production manager Rothschild

shows us what it looks like inside.

- You can see here the entrance of the raw material.

It comes through here.

And the combustion happens here.

The raw material flows over the molten glass.

It melts gradually and flows to the front side.

Then goes out of the furnace through the throat.

NARRATOR: The furnace, the centrepiece of the factory.

It takes 24 hours for the sand mixture to completely melt

and pass through the oven.

1.6 metres. That is the height of the smouldering raw material

in the oven. During the melting process,

compressed air is pumped into the oven from below.

This helps to evenly mix the raw materials

and prevents impurities in the glass.

In the control room, the oven is under constant surveillance.

This is what the super oven looks like from the inside

while it is in action. It runs 24 hours per day

on 365 days of the year

and is never turned off.

It would take 16 days to get it back to working temperature,

which would be far too expensive.

And then there is another reason why it's never turned off.

The liquid mass would become solid immediately.

This happens very quickly, as we can see with this drop of molten glass.

If that were to happen, the glass could block and destroy the oven.

Therefore it is constantly in action.

After 24 hours, the sand mixture has turned to glass

and shoots out of the oven.

It still has a temperature of 1,200 degrees!

A water-cooled machine cuts it into easy-to-handle pieces.

Each of these has exactly the size and the weight,

so that it is possible to form one coke bottle out of it.

Here the pieces are shot into the different production lines.

Then it's time for the shaping process.

This machine gives the coke bottles their typical shape

within just a few seconds.

And speed is of the essence here,

as up to a million bottles are produced here per day.

Over and over, workers clean the moulds

while the machines are running,

because they are never turned off, as we already know.

In our opinion, this is the toughest job in the factory.

It isn't quite as hot as next to the furnaces

where the employees can only spend short amounts of time.

Here, the staff spend eight hours per shift, in 70-degree heat.

We can't even bear it for a couple of minutes!

The only place for the workers to cool off is the break room.

In a quieter corner, we ask one of them how they manage.

- (speaks own language)

The freshly-formed bottles are still extremely hot

and very fragile. A bit of cold water and they burst.

This is what it looks like in slow motion.

Therefore the bottles have to go through a 550- degrees hot oven.

Despite its high temperature, it is called the "cooling oven".

The still red-hot bottles slowly cool down inside it.

When they come out,

they aren't quite as fragile anymore.

A random sample is checked.

The hammer test proves if the bottle can withstand impacts

in four different places.

This machine puts filled bottles under pressure.

They have to cope with 20 bar without exploding.

This one here bursts at 42.

After all, a bottle like this has to go through a lot.

Like lying in the sun for hours.

Machines and employees screen and check all the bottles in many steps.

The inspectors are looking for little bubbles or tears,

and if needed, adjust the machines.

Clear glass is especially tricky.

Even the smallest imperfections are visible.

But even when something does go wrong, nothing is thrown away.

Faulty bottles and shards of broken glass go one storey down.

Here, the glass is cooled down, shredded and washed.

Then it's back onto the mound in the desert.

The never-ending cycle of bottles.

And now finally we can water the deserts in our mouths

with water from oven-fresh coke bottles.

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