recycling facilities
Waste conversion sites
Recycling facilities are sites where recyclable materials are collected, sorted, and processed for reuse in manufacturing.
Materials like paper, glass, plastic, and metal arrive mixed and are separated by type, cleaned, and prepared for sale to manufacturers.
A single-stream facility handles all recyclables together; a materials recovery facility (MRF) sorts them mechanically and by hand.
The city's recycling facilities can process two hundred tons daily.
- blue binRecyclables collection container
- cardboardRigid paper for containers
- paperPressed pulp for writing
- electronic wasteDiscarded technological devices
- balersCrop-bundling equipment
glass · metals · sort · shredders · sorting machines · compactors · scrap metal · conveyor belts · energy savings · public awareness campaigns · cans · bottle deposit · resource conservation · construction debris · hazardous waste · trash · plastic · trucks
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
recycling facilitieslandfills
Engineered waste disposal sites
incinerators · garbage dumps · burn pits · dumps · dumping grounds
recycling facilitiesmines
Ore extraction sites
logging operations · oil refineries · throwaway culture · planned obsolescence