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Inside the recycling plant: How curbside material is sorted and where it goes
Summary
A Stutzman Refuse Disposal presenter walks viewers through how mixed curbside recycling from Sedgwick County and South Central Kansas is sorted, what the facility accepts and rejects, and how robotics and local mills turn collected material into new products.
"Do you ever wonder where your curbside recycling ends up and how it's used?" asked Speaker 1, a presenter at Stutzman Refuse Disposal, at the start of a brief tour of the plant in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Speaker 1 said the facility processes around "100 tons every day" and handles mixed, single-stream recycling collected from Sedgwick County and South Central Kansas. "If you put your recycle at the curb there is about a 95% chance that it comes here," the presenter said, describing the plant as a central sorting hub for the region.
The plant receives mixed material…
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