The Green Issue: So You Want to Recycle Responsibly
Tweet Recycling sorting at River Hills Recycling CenterPhoto: Eric England A sound not unlike rain patters incessantly at the back of the open-air building where trucks dump material at Nashville’s River Hills Recycling Center. This is the largest recycling facility in Nashville, and that sound is a thunderstorm of sorts. It’s a steady stream of pill bottles, drink cans, cardboard boxes and other materials hurtling through a large machine called a drum feeder, which sends the items down a conveyor belt to be sorted. Although operations manager Dilan Vince says the drum feeder can ...