Class 2

Class 2

Field Trip to Lexington Recycling Center

Over slept, first time in a while my alarm on my phone did not go off, or maybe I just did not set it or maybe I slept walked and turned it off, not sure.  I scrambled around to get my stuff together then rushed to try to find the Recycling Center.  I called a class mate for address but he could just tell me the street it was on and the street it was off of.  Spent 45 min trying to find it and finally did, but I praised God that everyone was just starting the tour when I got there so that I did not miss it and would have to find another time to come back to see it.

Anyway… We first saw all the “recyclables” (a giant hill) for that day being moved by a tractor to the belt that sorted through all the materials.  Then we saw the different sorters with people standing on both sides of the belts grabbing and removing any plastic bags they found, because they are evil and get caught up in the machines as they go through.

            Then we went outside to see and learn about the different plastics that could be recycled there.  We saw a big pile of bottle cap remnants that could not be recycled there and would use energy to be shipped “away”.

Then when we went back to go to the meeting room we saw giant cubes of different kinds of materials.  It looked like they could have been used to make walls for a house (they did use some of them to separate zones in the place).

In the meeting room we separated our product we thought were recyclable but were disappointed to find many were evil!  Anything can be recycled, there just needs to be enough of it and a demand for the material.