Where Does My Trash Go After it's Picked up?

Where Does My Trash Go After it's Picked Up? When your local driver picks up your trash on the curb, do you ever wonder where it goes? Your trash goes on a long journey, lets take a look. Your trash has a different journey than your recycling. Let's focus on the trash.
First, your driver will pick up the garbage in your neighborhood. A garbage truck can hold 7-8 tons of material before it needs to be emptied at a transfer station.
So, What is a transfer Station?
A transfer station is where the garbage truck will take your garbage in order for it to be brought to a landfill. At the transfer station, each truck is weighed on a large scale to accurately record the amount of garbage collected. Next the truck will unload the material into a shed, where it will be scooped up and put into larger trailer trucks. When these larger trailer trucks are full, they head head to the landfill.
What happens at the landfill?
At the landfill, the large trucks will dump in predetermined spots in the landfill called cells. Trucks will continue to dump here until the cell is full.
Contrary to popular belief, modern landfills are well planned and regulated. The landfill has ways of protecting the environment, like collecting the gasses the landfill creates. The Methane and Carbon Dioxide can be collected with a vacuum system, and converted into renewable energy that can power entire buildings. They also have a way of dealing with leachate. Leachate is a contaminated liquid beneath the landfill.
These systems are regulated during the landfill's life, and for decades after the landfill is closed.
Even though it takes decades for large landfills to be filled, knowing how to properly reduce, reuse, and recycle can extend a landfill's life, guaranteeing future generations will have access to a clean environment and natural resources.

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