Living in a recycled world May 6, 2008
Deffenbaugh Industries facility in Kansas City, Kan., picks up, sorts, bundles and sends what we use. The material will eventually be made into something new, again.
Trucks unload residential recycling material that will be sorted and bundled into separate loads.
Workers sort material that moves on a conveyor belt. The sorters have to pull trash and other items that don’t belong.
A small front-loader piles more plastic bottles and containers that were sorted from other residential recycling material brought to the Deffenbaugh facility in Kansas City, Kan. The sorted material eventually will make its way to be pack and bundled together for shipping.
A worker sweeps stray bottles back to a large mound of recyclable plastic that will be packed and bundled at the Deffenbaugh Industries recycling facility in Kansas City, Kan. Much of the material eventually will be shipped to either Mexico or China.
Bundled cardboard material is loaded on a semi-trailer and will be shipped somewhere else to be used for something new.
Tightly packed blocks of aluminum cans sit on a dock at the Deffenbaugh facility waiting to be shipped to a buyer of the material.
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Talking points
How often do you go to the library?
“I almost never go there at all — only with my wife, Kim. She checks out, I’d say, at least three books a week. The kids go with her, and she teaches them how to find things.”
