The Big Sort: An Insider's Tour of a Recycling Plant 

Same ! Wassup you still working there, if so how was the experience?

Break a leg!

@@jordymurillo8006 I am still working there! I graduated from sorter to heavy equipment operator!!

@@imodium9822 Congrats man! Thank you for your work too!

Cool! Recycling is such an important job and helps the environment. I want to work on something related to recycling and/or composting when I grow up

Woah what... you’re here? 😂

It’s big business now. Various companies buy these as raw materials, break it down or melt it down, and manufacture new products made from partially or 100% recycled materials. Anywhere from from containers, to paper, to toys, & even electronics, you’d be surprised what can actually be produced using recycled waste. I recommend a documentary called “Racing to Zero”. It goes into more detail about the “lifecycle” of a product, turning potential into reality. It’s really interesting...more info can be found @ www.racingtozero.org

@@prima808 need more info about that doc plz, too vague as several options appear

Dadding For Dads - My bad. It’s actually called “Racing to Zero”, you can find the trailer on RU-vid or on www.racingtozero.org Incidentally, in the past year especially, the U.S. recycling industry/market has actually seen a lot of setbacks. Countries such as China, who we used to sell our recyclables to as raw materials, are no longer buying it - For several reasons, but one major issue is contamination. Many ppl, whom I call “aspirational recyclers”, don’t really know what can or can’t be accepted by their particular waste management facility, so they just put it in anyways, thereby contaminating the rest of the batch. Then there’s always those who just don’t give sh*t and mix everything together. Smh 🤦‍♀️ It’s disappointing. I think there needs to be better education on the how-to’s of recycling. Even I get confused sometimes.

The global population increases at about 100 million people every 14-15 months with 10 million people across poorer nations moving out of poverty to become consumers every 12 months that's a lot more people buying a can or bottle of coke added to the global population every year for example.

The main issue with buyers is how cheap petrolium based "new" plastic is, but as that cost increases, recyclables (ie old plastci) will become more valuable.

Our factory has this machine for plastic sorting, metal sorting, rubber sorting, bean sorting and so on. Whatsapp 15322997659

Those exist. Look up "Refuse Derived Fuel". My favorite is the EU "Plasma Rock" Fluidized Bed + Plasma Gasification Combined Cycle plant.

can i do not recycling and illegal thing

Sorted, smashed, chopped, bailed BUT NOT ONE FINISHED PRODUCT!! BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ANY FINISHED PRODUCTS MADE WITH THIS STUFF....

@@davidmoore1727 Beg to differ. I temped at an MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) who worked with Terracycle to produce products like pots, cutting boards, keychains just to name a few. There are countless applications where using recycled products is viable if recycling is done correctly, i.e. not contaminated with trash, foods, and other unaccepted items. In fact, I have a friend (Nathan Gray in MA) who does plastic recycling on a smaller can and makes park benches.

Same

All glass, all papers, all plastic bottles (transparent, coloured and/or rigid), all cans and ferrous objects are recyclables in most areas. Therefore plastic bags and all plastic films and wraps can't be put in the recycling bin. The residue they spoke of in the video, is mostly all this non-recyclable plastic and all others non recylables people mistakenly throw like food scraps, heavily soiled cartons, fabrics etc...

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5000 tons, so much.... Do you considerate to purchase a sorting machine?

I wish. However, for a while it was cheaper to ship it back to China to be recycled on the ships that carried commodities here

@@dongguanhaibaomachinerytec4799 Clover Bar Used to be a garbage dumb east of Edmonton and now it has a large recycling industrial complex built on it. Two very large buildings have numerous sorting machines and cyclo separators being used as well as new ones being invented. We also try out numerous separation machinery sourced from manufacturers globally. This is evolving technology and Edmonton is at the fore front of it. We currently divert 60% of our garbage from land fill with a goal of 80% by 2024.

@@ph11p3540 Do you have any idea about separator machine?

It is mentioned in the video, not all plastics have the same fraction

What?

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Or they are mainly just purely retarded.

Probably because this is a sorting plant. A recycling plant would do that

@@lennyappleton2840 Where bales of plastic bottles go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vAr4BZM_Tzk.html

I wonder which system is more efficient. Your system where people have to have separate containers, then the bin men have to load all those separate containers into vehicles that have separate bays. Then how much cross contamination is there? Or just throw it all in one recycle bin, recycle bin man picks up bin in automated truck, then sort it all at the yard?

@@worldadventureman The first option probably requires more investment and efforts upstream but it's definitely more efficient as the recovery facility will have to hire less people to sort out, probably less conveyors or conveyors use (as less non-recyclable residue will be thrown out by people upstream).

Did you watch the video? It is automatically sorting all recyclables. My local facility is semi automatic but it doesn't require any more people than if the product was pre sorted at home because invariably people still cross contaminate.

@@worldadventureman Yes I did. Even if it automatically sorts all recyclables, having less residue at the end of the sorting line is a gain of time and money, because there's less to manage overall.

Single-stream is supposed to increases participation rates.

Esa planta costó más de 110 millones de dólares en total.

Donde la instalaste? y para que volùmen diario?

esta planta está instalada en Brooklyn, New York y puede procesar alrededor de 1,000 toneladas por día

Acà serìa bastante ùtil por ese presupuesto da para la provincia de Valparaìso con cerca de 1000 tons. RSD/ dìa, y que productos es posible generar ?

Nada. No Producto. Solo Sortire. @@CEMatta