Recycling Center: Online Tour

Plastic and aluminum are flattened for easier sorting and storage. Workers sort plastic by type and drop each into tubes where currents from air blowers propel the material into storage silos.

Aluminum passes over an eddy current magnet that causes the cans to have magnetic charges that repel each other. See the cans "POP" off the line onto connecting conveyers.

Cans continue on conveyers that lead to a tube where air current moves the cans to a storage silo.