How do things get recycled now days?

Question

Years ago I remember my parents getting a specific rubber trash can that was only to be used for recycling and a seperate truck would pick that up. That no longer happens. There is only trash day, no day for recycling and people use those old rubber recycling cans for their regular trash. How are bottles and cans being recycled now days? Does the trash company open the garbage bags and sort through them? There must be a new way that it is getting done because I see absolutely no one doing it and apt complexes no longer have specific recycling bins next to the trash bins, so what's the deal?

Answer 1

the mealt all plastic togther and make new things out of it

Answer 2

What happens is all the garbage goes to a plant.  Then at the plant they literally sort out all of the materials into piles - wood, glass, metal, paper etc.  They send all the sorted materials to a place that will re-use the materials for new products.

Other items such as non-hazardous, non-recyclable waste like lead paint coated items and food products are sent to the landfill.  With landfill restrictions, you can only send these materials to be buried.

Construction waste makes up 40% of the waste flow into garbage facilities.  I am working on a green project which requires that 95% of waste is to be recycled.  We separate everything onsite into different dumpsters to be sent to different facilities.  Co-mingled waste is then sent to the facilities I mentioned above to be sorted.

We are then provided a worksheet broken down into individual items (metal, wood, concrete, glass, mixed) which gives us the tonnage and percentage of recycling.  Fines, or regrind (small particles that cannot be physically recycled into anything) are sent to compost piles for fertilizer.  They are also accounted for.

Answer 3

they are saving it all up and are gonna make a new city on mars