Mr. Bartles said. Clothing is gathered by the Children's Mission Fund. Concrete is ground into roadbuilding rubble. Aluminum is sent to the Southeastern Firefighters Burn Foundation. Appliances are sold to a metal recycler and batteries are shipped to a lead recovery plant.
Tires become pellets for septic tank drainfields.
The landfill buries about 3,900 tons of trash per day, but it recovers or recycles 270 tons, which includes materials such as soil and concrete. Mr. Bartles said. Fort Gordon, for example, maintains one of the region's most effective public recycling facilities at 19th Street and Chamberlain Avenue. The site recycles more than 4 million pounds of trash a year that otherwise would go to landfills, said recycling project Manager Gene Trevathan. Economically, recycling isn't consistently profitable.