We should talk about our pollution problems loudly and often: start conversations with family members and friends, call local and federal representatives to support bottle bills, plastic bag taxes and increased producer responsibility for reuse and recycling.
But not so many people know exactly how recycling works. In fact, you trash bin is where you have the most control over reducing contamination. Toss in a coated paper receipt or plastic bottle, a dirty aluminum can, or a handful of broken glass, and you can contaminate entire batches of recycling. Waste management trucks scoop up your recyclables, where they are commingled and tossed in with all your neighbor’s bin contents. Glass may break, posing risk to recycling workers, and food and liquid residue can ruin batches of recyclables.
The materials then arrive at a waste transfer station if you live in a larger city, which is like a pit stop for waste to be sorted into what goes to a landfill and what can be taken to a composting or recycling facility. Transfer stations offer another opportunity for glass to break or food and liquid to contaminate paper. At last, the recyclables arrive at a materials recovery facility, where they are pre-sorted by hand. Mechanized screens separate items by weight and shape, and powerful magnets sort aluminum out. Each type of recyclable is packaged into bales, which are sent on to facilities specializing in recycling those particular materials.
Angenium is one of the recycling companies which always keeps a close watch on technological developments and tries to find modern and efficient ways of recycling waste. And now with the help of unique technologies, it is possible not only improve the ecological situation, but also extract and produce useful materials from waste, in particular precious metals (gold and metals of the platinum group), silica, alumina, iron oxide from ash and slag wastes (ash) and pyritic cinders. To find out more, go to www.angenium.io
Source: Greenamerica
