Plastic Recycling
March 05, 2013
Volunteers participating in the International Coastal Cleanup collect litter in the Anacostia area of Washington, DC.
From VOA Learning English, this is EXPLORATIONS in Special English. I’m Kelly Jean Kelly.
And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today we follow plastic bottles and other plastic objects as they go to one of the largest recycling centers in the United States. And we tell about the effect a tax on plastic bags is having in the nation’s capital.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Recycling has become a part of American life. It also is an important part of the waste-processing industry. In fact, many cities and towns in the United States now have recycling programs.
To learn how such a program works, we will go to a recycling center in the eastern state of Maryland.
The recycle bin in the home or office is often the last stop for empty containers. But for papers, plastics, cardboards and cans, it is the beginning of a trip thousands of kilometers long.
Yehenew Gedshew directs a recycling center near Washington, DC.
“As long as people throw their trash, we have a job.”
His recycling center processes about 35 tons of material an hour. How does it process that much every hour? Yehenew Gedshew says the business is highly-organized.
“First what happens is, dump trucks bring materials to our site. They dump it on the tipping floor. It goes to the first screen where the cardboard and the rest of (the) material is sorted out.”
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