The Belgrade Transfer Station!!

Today I went to the Belgrade Transfer Station and meet with Bill Miller a family friend who works there. The first thing that I wanted to know was what is the difference between a dump and a transfer station. Bill explained to me that a dump is a place were people just take the trash and put it on the grown and then its barred. A transfer station is were people take trash were is sorted into various ways. From there the trash is taken to a secure land fills that are regulated by the state. Also the transfer station has a recycle center.

The recycling center at the transfer station is a place were people can recycle: All plastics, tin and Aluminum as well as Mixed paper, Magazines, News Paper, Corrugated Cardboard and Used oil. All the things recycled there are sold by the transfer station/Town. The news paper gets made into things like tissue paper, toilet paper as well as many other things. The Cardboard gets made in to news paper. The best part is these things are not being put into the land fills.

The thing I thought was most interesting today was how the transfer station is heated. The station uses the used oil that people bring in to heat the buildings. It cost them nearly nothing and the used oil is not being thrown out or going to waist.

One of the other things that I really liked was the Too good to throw away Building. People can put stuff in the building that they don't want any more but is still in good condition.

Today I learned that the transfer station has alto of good opportunities for people to recycle but, there is still alto of waist. Bill told me that around have of the trash taken to the land fills could be recycled at the recycle station but people don't take the time to recycle it. I also asked him how could we get more people to recycle. He told me that the only way he can see more people recycling is if there was a law for it.

I personally think that people just don't want to take the time to recycle and some people may recycle more if they were more informed and new how.