The first trash bins in Prypiat since the Chornobyl accident.

Prypiat was evacuated on April 27, 1986, and since then nobody had cared for it as a town. There were more and more visitors, but nowhere to throw away trash.

We put up five bins in Prypiat - the first since the accident. They were installed by young people who had been born in this town before the evacuation. For them it was not cleaning up an open-air museum, but bringing order to their home town. They were happy to do at least something for the town of their childhood, which they still love.

We took the trash out ourselves. We changed the bags and on the way out of the Zone left them in the large containers at the Dytiatky checkpoint. We asked the guards at the Prypiat checkpoint to keep an eye on the bins.

A trash bin is a small thing. But it changes attitudes: a place where you can throw your trash away stops being no one's.