County recycling districts offer different service levels

Plastic and aluminum sit baled ready for shipment to customers at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility.

County recycling districts offer different service levels

Spotters sort out materials from paper at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility on Chicago's South Side. The 180,000-square-foot facility processes more than 600 tons of paper, plastic, aluminum, tin and cardboard each day. About 1,300 tons came from Northwest Indiana Between Janua…

County recycling districts offer different service levels

Cardboard and other recyclable materials are unloaded and then placed on a conveyor system that carries the material through a sorting process at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility where more than 600 tons of paper, plastic, aluminum, tin and cardboard are processed each day. Ab…

County recycling districts offer different service levels

A series of conveyors and mechanical sorters carry paper and other recyclable material at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility on Chicago's South Side. The facility processes about 650 tons of recyclable waste each day, some of which comes from Northwest Indiana.

County recycling districts offer different service levels

Bales of paper ready to be shipped at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility on Chicago's South Side, where it processes more than 600 tons of paper, plastic, aluminum, tin and cardboard each day.

County recycling districts offer different service levels

A conveyor belt carries cardboard to be sorted at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility on Chicago's South Side.

More communities finding the cash value of recycling

Bales of sorted and recycled paper are ready for shipment to customers at the Waste Management-Recycling America facility on Chicago's South Side. The 180,000-square-foot facility processes more than 600 tons of paper, plastic, aluminum, tin and cardboard each day. About 1,300 tons came from…

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