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Where your recycling goes when it leaves the curb
Category: Government & Organizations
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Publish Date: 2013-11-01 10:57:29
Description: This week, it's a story you might have heard before, but with the answers you never got: Where, exactly , does your recycling go when it leaves the curb? A plucky listener asked us to figure out what exactly happens to our recycling here in Columbia and if we could break it down resource by resource. We are nothing, if not helpful, so without further ado, here’s how it works: Your recycling gets picked up in a truck by city employees. They take it to the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) located on the the city's landfill site northeast of town. There, your recycling gets separated, compacted and stored until there's enough of a certain type to sell to brokers or manufacturers. It's true that the city won't recycle every kind of recyclable. That's because buyers don't want mixed product. They'll only buy one type at a time (aluminum, steel cans, #1 plastics, etc.) and they only want it if there's a "truckload" available. One "truckload" is 40,000 pounds. Columbia's population is just
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