The Cultural Recycler uses the gigantic facilities of the 1949 Ponferrada plant to house and distribute works that were going to be destroyed or would never be seen again. The idea is not only to reuse the works, but also to produce, present, and transport the works.

"The carbon footprint you leave in an exhibition ranges from the impressions you make to the transportation. Since this environmental investment is made, why not take advantage of it and maximize it by taking it to other places where they could not afford to have it?" explains Yasodhara López, general director of the City of Energy Foundation (Ciuden), a body attached to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. It is the headquarters of La Recicladora, the nerve center from where the traveling exhibitions will be distributed to other spaces and which will also serve as a temporary deposit of the Works. The América XXIorous XXIris, a 24-meter-wide mural by Baltazar Castellano and Olga Manzano, will go on display in a cultural space in another city. The type of exhibitions that best adapt to this idea of circulation are those of serial works, photography, or graphic works. La Recicladora is the first to be presented at national level and with a main emphasis on places in the country where there is no profuse cultural activity. Casa Amèrica de Catalunya, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Niemeyer Center in Avilés, the Ethnographic Museum of Castilla y León, and the production company Mil Ojos have already joined. The warehouses are a small part of the enormous complex of more than 6,500 square meters that includes La Térmica Cultural, headquarters of La Recingada and which has functioned as an activity center since March of last year. In one of the rooms, you can see how the old factory worked through virtual reality lenses, while in the space where the boilers were, a garden has been built with 400-year-old tree ferns brought from New Zealand.