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original post »New York's Sunset Park recycling facility has got a very pleasant visitor's center, which provides detailed information on how the plant functions, as well as some hands-on displays for students that lets them experiment a bit with mechanical separation. It's all very clean and appealing; Sims Municipal Recycling, which operates the facility, has done a nice job of sanitizing a very messy process.
One flight upstairs is a walkway that takes you to a viewing platform inside the recycling facility itself (technically the "Material Recovery Facility), and it's a completely different experience. The facility handles waste of various sorts on a massive scale, and the building literally shakes with activity, at the same time your senses are being assaulted with the sights, sounds, and smells of the activity it contains.
Pardon the shaky-cam, but the temperatures were below freezing and the building was vibrating. (video link)Recyclable trash in the city—cans, bottles, plastic containers of all sorts—are required to be placed in transparent plastic bags (blue or clear only, please) and placed on the curb of every building. Picked up by same style of sanitation trucks that handle the refuse, 15,000 tons of that material is brought to the Sunset Park facility every month, either by truck or barge.
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