Ever wonder what happens to your
recyclables after they are collected? Take a look at
these pictures!
 After
the material in your Blue Box & Triple R Can is
collected it is brought to the Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery
Centre and deposited onto the tipping floor.
 Material
is moved onto a sorting line. We have two sorting lines;
one for fibre (all paper recyclables) and one for containers
(plastics #1-7, glass, aluminum and tin).
Fibre (paper) sorting line
Newspaper is not sorted off the sorting line. It remains on the conveyor belt and falls off into a bunker where it is ready to be baled.
 Container Sorting Line
Each
employee is assigned to sort a certain type of material.
Employees drop this material into bunkers located below
the sorting lines.
Only 3 materials do not get touched
by the Employees: aluminum, steel and old newspaper.
 Our
Eddy Current uses an anti-magnetic current, that throws
the aluminum cans into a bunker.
 Steel
is taken off with a magnet.
After the material
is sorted it taken by a conveyor belt to the baler.
The baler compresses the material to form bales.
Glass is not baled; it is moved into bins located at the back of our facility.
 The
bales are what we ship off-site to be made into new
material. Click here for a list of where our recyclables
go and what they are used for.
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