Everyday, our recycled trash is handled in a systematic way to keep our lives in order. These images show the people and scenes from that daily system of pick-up, sorting, diverting, bundling and shipment of our recyclable trash to be re-used for new products. Make no mistake, the trash you throw "away" never goes away. Instead, it is touched and sorted by human hands, only to be channeled to another place - sometimes the landfill - but if we are lucky, it makes its way into a new form to be re-imagined, re-manufactured, re-purposed, and re-used.
Click on each image for a larger view. (MRF = Materials Recovery Facility)
Click on each image for a larger view. (MRF = Materials Recovery Facility)