What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recyclinghttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/ …
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As I understand it, the big winners are metals and some varieties of plastics http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph240/micks2/ … Aluminum, copper, iron/steel, lead are cheaper to melt down than mine new ore. Glass recycling is essentially pointless. Paper and wood products degrade when recycled.
Where we are in Texas, we generate tons of scrap cardboard (boxes come in, and then we sell their contents). We were giving it away and no one would take it. You can also burn trash for electricity. I was thinking about some sort of grate at the bottom to let metals fall down?
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Yeah, we should definitely burn most things that can burn to make power, over putting them in landfills. The plant my dad worked at burned demo and wood chips. The trucks would dump, then material went on a conveyor, through a series of magnets and metal detectors.
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Then through a big grinder, before going into the fuel pile. From there it went up the boiler feed conveyors, into the top of the boiler. The boiler had a huge set of motorized rotating grates that sifted out the ash. When they did biannual shutdowns, all the grates came out
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