Next Stop: Recycle Town

According to Rumpke’s Recycling Division, the sorting process for recycled materials goes like this:

•Recycled products are collected at the curb or drop-off box and transported to a recycling center.

•The truck loaded with materials is weighed and then directed to the interior of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF).

•Recyclable materials are dumped onto a tipping floor.

•Then these materials are placed on a conveyor belt that carries them through a sorting station. Employees sort through the materials on the moving belt and remove unacceptable materials from the stream.

•The recycled items then travel through a series of automated and manual sorting stations which separate materials into their specific categories. A magnet is used to remove steel cans and an eddy current removes the aluminum cans. Glass and plastic containers are sorted by hand.

•The separated materials are baled or contained and then shipped to facilities to be recycled into new products.

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This information is from Rumpke.

"Recycling is important because it saves natural resources and you can reuse the things that you recycle."