The DBG TEENS visited the Recycling Transfer Station in North Phoenix last month. We were not really sure as to what to expect, but I think that we were all surprised at what we saw, lots and lots of stuff! Stuff that would have gone to a landfill years ago but now that stuff is being recycled into new drinking bottles, faux lumber to make benches and picnic tables, new paper and paper products, etc. They actually dump everything onto fast moving conveyor belts and employees hand sort everything by hand....they were quite talented! Paper is the number one recycled material and over 300 tons of recycled items are sorted and packed up each day. We definitley saw community progress that day!
