A quick primer on how recycling works in local jurisdictions: Our area conducts single-stream (also called comingled) recycling, meaning all recyclables go into one bin that you drag to the curb once a week. Trucks collect the contents and transport them to a Materials Recovery Facility, or MRF, where the items take a ride on a conveyor belt and get sorted by machines and human workers. Machines then compress the piles of paper, plastic, aluminum, glass and other materials and package them in bales for sale to companies that give them new life in another form.
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