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WHERE DO MY RECYCLABLES GO?
Do you ever wonder what happens to your recyclables after they leave your house? That squashed can of Coca-Cola? How about your old homework paper? Let’s take a look!
First, the garbage truck picks up your recycled items and takes them to the Materials Recovery Facility, or MRF. This is where they sort the recycled materials into different groups: iron and steel, aluminum, glass bottles, paper, wood, and plastics. A tractor pushes the waste onto a conveyor belt, where workers pick out the pieces of trash that may damage the MRF machines. Sometimes we accidentally put the wrong things in our recycling bin, so these workers help to take them out.
Once all the recyclables are sorted into different groups, each type of material is either put into big containers, or they are baled. This means that they are crushed into big cubes. Some materials are cleaned, others are crushed, and most are melted; but all of these materials get recycled into a new product.
At the end of the whole process, the materials that were picked out by the workers or cannot be recycled will be taken to a landfill. This is why it is so important to recycle and to only put what is allowed into your recycling bin. If we throw our recyclables into a regular trash bin, they won’t be sent to the MRF and will therefore end up in a landfill. This is a waste of resources and bad for the environment.
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