Baltimore County, MD Department of Public Works, 1 Aug 2016

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From YouTube: Recycling: Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)

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Learn about the Materials Recovery Facility in Baltimore County.

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Baltimore county residents put their recyclables out for collection.

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These residents set out a mixture of paper,, plastic,, metal, and glass items in baltimore, county's.

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Single stream recycling program.

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residents may also take their recyclables to one of baltimore county's three drop-off centers,, located in white marsh,, cockeysville and halethorpe.

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Do you participate in the county's recycling program?.

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Recycling keeps materials out of baltimore county's only active landfill.

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Recycling allows materials to be used, again, saving natural resources such as trees, oil and iron,, while reducing pollution.

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Also, recycling saves baltimore county millions of dollars a year.

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In avoided disposal costs.

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have you ever wondered where your recyclables go after you set them out at home or take them to a drop-off center?.

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Let s find out.. Our journey takes us to baltimore county's central acceptance facility in cockeysville..

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This facility houses, the county's materials recovery facility.

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at this facility,, all the mixed recyclables are separated.

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By type for resale to the marketplace.

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Collection trucks, empty recyclables onto the tipping floor of the recycling facility., a loader places them onto a main conveyer belt, where they are carried up to begin. The sorting process.

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Next, workers manually remove non-recyclable materials.

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At the presort area. machines continue to sort the materials.

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inclined rotating star screens, allow large cardboard items.

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To surf over the stars to the next conveyor, belt,.

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Which takes the cardboard to a holding unit called a bunker.

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All other materials then fall through the screens to another conveyor. Belt.

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paper is separated from containers and falls into a bunker for future bailing.

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Steel, glass,, plastic and aluminum are directed to the glass breaker to remove glass.

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Steel stars break all the glass.

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Broken glass then falls through the stars, while the other recyclables surf over the stars to the next separation process.

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An optical sorter is used to separate pet plastics.

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From remaining materials., an electronic eye identifies the high value plastic.

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And precise air blasts push it to another conveyor, belt.

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All other grades of plastic are removed at a manual sort, station.

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Metals, pass under a magnet, which removes steel cans.

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And sends them to a bunker for future bailing.

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A magnetic eddy current is used to separate aluminum for future bailing.

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Once materials are sorted,, each type of recyclable.

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Is compressed into a large rectangular, bail and wrapped with wire.

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A forklift then moves and stacks bails in a holding section of the facility.

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Bails are then loaded onto trucks for shipping to local,.

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Regional,, national and international businesses.

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Each type of recyclable will be made into a new product,, some of which will return to a store near you..

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Old cans can be made into new cans.

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paper. Towels can be made from newspaper and junk mail.

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Plastics from soda bottles can be formed into a fiber that can be woven to make t-shirts and tote bags.

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Recycled steel can be used to make new automobiles.

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You complete the recycling process when you buy products.

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Made with recycled materials.

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want to start recycling or recycle more than you already do?.

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Baltimore county makes it easier than ever.

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If you live in a single family, home or townhome,,.

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Look at your four year trash and recycling collection, schedule and program guide.

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To see what materials are accepted in baltimore county's convenient single stream recycling program.

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If you live in an apartment or condominium, check, with your property manager for specific instructions.

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Together, we can make baltimore county a clean,, green county.

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To find out your area's recycling rate, visit www.bcrecycles.com.