Tuesday, March 8, 2022

What Really Happens to Your Recycling

 What happens at a recycling center? It's a fast-moving conveyer belt designed to accept only certain stuff. It has to discard a huge amount of things. And there's a lot of junk to begin with.  A Miami-Dade County survey of material picked up by county trucks showed that almost half of each load was "contaminated" -- meaning it had to be thrown out. Click HERE for an explainer of what happens in words, photos and video. 

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