Each and every week you deal with waste collection. You roll your garbage can out to the curb and the sanitation crew takes it away. But have you ever given garbage much thought other than placing the items into specific recycling bins? For some people landfills are simply eyesores that dot the horizon but for others it is a growing concern over what happens to their garbage once it has been collected. What happens to the recyclable materials?

Your garbage cycle all begins with a recycling program designed to cut down on the waste that is put into a landfill. The program utilizes certain material byproducts from the merchandise and food that you purchase. Take for example a bottle of water. If you buy one per day for a year, that adds up to a staggering three hundred and sixty four bottles. If they aren’t disposed of properly, then they may end up in a ditch somewhere. So you can see how solid waste management might have a difficult time keeping up with all those plastic bottles.

The processing plant is the next stop in waste collection. Here, recyclables will be sorted out once again and then distributed to special plants that can make other goods from the material. You would be surprised at all the things that can be made from recycled plastic, glass, aluminum cans and paper.

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