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Inside the Materials Recovery Facility
Regional recycling helps Milwaukee and Waukesha recover waste. Our photos capture the process.
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Thanks for the write up! This is quite interesting. The move to single stream was a huge help for makjg it easier for folks to recycle and the benefits are tremendous for the environment.
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Thanks for this interesting ”reveal”, Laura. Looking forward to taking a tour myself,
Something you mentioned could be further emphasized. I saved a newspaper article in which officials discussed the effects of tossing plastic bags, such as grocery bags and trash bags, in with the recyclable stuff. To hear them describe it, these bags are the absolute bane of their existence. As stated in your piece, they jam up the equipment and cause major inefficiencies as they have to be fished out (manually, I suppose?) to get the equipment restarted. My guess is that lots of citizens don’t know or maybe don’t care about this. But it is such a simple and easily understood thing. Seems to me there should be a major campaign to alert people to this unacceptable practice, which is all too common.