Remove paper labels from cans. Remove metal seals from bottlenecks. This center pays cities for materials that can be recycled. They are sorted and sent off to recycling plants. Activity at Recycling Plants Paper 1.
Paper is sorted by type and sent to a paper mill.
Hydrapulper cooks the paper until it is a thick soup of fibers. Detergents and chemicals remove inks. The paper is now pulp, which looks like cottage cheese. Impurities are removed by a moving screen, spinners, and a series of washers. Pulp is bleached with chlorine to make it white and washed again.