In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, a worker collects plastic bottles among piles of broken glass, later to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd., Israel’s only glass container factory, produces one million containers a day. Some 300,000 bottles a day come out with defects, and the factory grinds them into shards and piles them in a desert lot to be melted into new bottles. The factory is in the middle of the desert, and works round the clock, every day of the year. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel’s desert has more than just mounds of sand swept across its vast landscape, mountains of shimmering green and brown glass flow through the area too. No, it’s not an art installation. These millions of fragments of glass are located in the junkyard of Israel’s only glass container factory, located in Yeruham.

Photographer Oded Balilty captured the stunning landscape of glass mountains, towering 50 feet tall, and documented the daily routine of the workers in the factory.

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For the past 50 years, these factory workers have worked everyday, 24 hours a day, to give broken glass new life. The shards are ground and later moved into ovens to be, according to the Associated Press.

The bottles that arrive at the factory are the defect products produced by Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd., . They also produce products for companies like Coca Cola and Heineken.