Single-Stream Recycling — Leading the Way to Zero Waste

Boulder County Recycling Center, Boulder, Colorado presents “Single-stream Recycling-Leading the Way to Zero Waste.” A 15:15 minute video offering an in-depth look at the single-stream recycling process at the Boulder County Recycling Center. The tour begins at the curbside recycling bin and follows the single-stream materials to the tipping floor of the Boulder County Recycling Center. Mr. Can, the star of the show, continues the recycling journey into the high-tech world of single-stream processing. Newspaper and office paper; corrugated cardboard; aluminum cans; glass bottles and jars; plastic bottles, tubs, jugs and jars; magazines and catalogs; and phone books are separated by a series of conveyors, pre-sorts, screens, cross-belt magnet, air classifier, Eddy current separator, glass cleaning system, organic separator, and finally a fines screen and vacuum. Action video explains each step of the way and provides a behind-the-scenes, up-close view of the equipment in action. The Boulder County Recycling Center is doing its part to help Boulder County become a Zero Waste Community by 2025. Because we’re all in this together, remember to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost!

Transcript available here:
http://www.bouldercounty.org/find/library/avtrans/singlestreamrecyclingaudiotranscript.txt

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36 thoughts on “Single-Stream Recycling — Leading the Way to Zero Waste”

  1. its really good to watch this video ..plz help me out to solve how to establish it in odisha ,India AND THE TOTAL cost around …

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  2. A brilliant scheme. It should be copied throughout the world. The only problem is not everything can be recycled. Yet!

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  3. Those people just pull out one piece out of tones.
    God try harder to make me happy & interested. This is crap & I'm bored

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  4. Any here recycles bottles? If so, what method offers a higher reimbursement recycling center or reverse vending machine, like RePlanet?

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  5. I noticed they are using employees from the "County Jail" as per what's written on their uniforms. I guess that is a good way to get cheap labor, but also give opportunities to train or rehab criminals.

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  6. If the recycling was collected already sorted everything would have been so much easier!!! Where I lived, the recycling bins used to be all sorted. There were even 3 different giant bins for brown, green and clear glasses. But later they changed to this single recycling system. They say it is to encourage people to do more recycling. So they are making everything harder for the recycling facilities just cause people are too lazy to sort their recycling!

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  7. AWESOME video. So cool to see inside a recycling facility and see how everything works. Learned that I was throwing a few things into my recycle bins that I shouldn't be too!

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  8. Nice work.

    I was able to reduce my "waste" to only recyclables and compost. I reduced it so much, in fact, that I don't need to have my trash picked up any longer, thus, I'm about to challenge my city ordinance on requiring trash pick-up and payment, which they're not thrilled about (or, should I say, the garbage industry isn't thrilled about…).

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  9. Very informative! Thanks for posting.  Is the sorting process depicted here unique to Boulder or is the process relatively universal? Thanks.

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  10. they have optical sorting, static sorting, and then humans sorting…AND THEY MISS THE BIG YELLOW PLASTIC SLINGSHOT?!

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  11. am so interested in a startup. How can i learn more about thus equipment? name, price, plc of order? etc. thanks

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  13. how about plastic-like zipper bags to hold fruit?
    how about fishnet-like bags to hold avocados and apples?

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  14. our machine can make some products from these waste paper,we call it paper pulp molding machine

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  15. Could you please mention where is this industry located & kindly mention any mail to get the details regarding this business ?Thanks in advance

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