Most of the material is paper. The paper moves along this conveyor belt. In the sorting room, people separate different kinds of paper and cardboard and remove a small amount of trash. It is important to keep trash out of recycling bins, as it wastes time and energy and if the sorters miss a piece of trash, it can damage machinery at a paper mill. The paper and cardboard are dropped down chutes.
Paper falls below the sorting room, ready to be shaped into bales.
Bales of paper and cardboard are ready to be sent to the paper mill. The bales are loaded onto trucks and taken to paper mills to make new recycled-content paper and cardboard. Garbage that does not get recycled goes to this landfill. Trucks cover the trash with a layer of soil each day.