Recycling Processing Center

We took a load of metal to the recycling center.

Here is a pile of wooden pallets. They deal with wood on-site. I am not sure how it ends up after it has been broken down.

I took a couple of shots of compacted materials ready to be trucked to various plants where they are reclaimed and recycled.

These are aluminum cans.

Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild our commercial air fleet every three months, and enough iron and steel to supply all our nation's automakers every day.

Throwing away one aluminum can wastes as much energy as if that can were 1/2 full of gasoline.

This is plastic, mostly bottles.

Here is a little closer.

Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

The statistics are from the Clean Air Council.

Surely we can do better than this, friends.