Ever wondered where your plastic bottles, metal cans, and other recyclables go when they leave your blue bin? If you live in Vermont, chances are good that they’re headed for the CSWD Materials Recovery Facility (MRF – rhymes with “smurf”!) in Williston. This is where all of those materials get sorted, baled, and shipped off to market. In this video, we take you backstage to see what really goes on in this amazing facility.
Watch as your blue bin resources travel along conveyors, past spinning discs, over mechanical paddle arms, and through the fast-moving hands of hard-working people on their magical journey through the MRF.
Very informative! Thank you!
Great job keep up the good work, only thing I would recommend is you shouldn't be standing on or next to a bale of #1 pete bottles incase of a wire blow out. Plastic bales want to expand and are under a lot of pressure as it exits the bale chamber and the wire's gets strapped. I manage a recycling facility in Palmer Alaska and I do not let anyone including staff stand on or near a bale incase of a wire blow out wich I have seen happen before and thankfully no one got hurt.
Good watch.
Well done