Where Does Your

Recycling Go?

What Happens After We Pick Up Your Recycling?

Learn more about our recycling process.

As recycling and selling recyclable goods has gotten more difficult on a global scale over the past few years, we have gotten many questions about our recycling process. What actually happens once we’ve picked up your recyclable materials? With the increasing challenges in our industry at the forefront, Ever Green has created a system which ensures that uncontaminated recyclable goods are separated, packaged and ultimately sold to companies who then use this material to create their own products.

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THE EVER GREEN PROCESS

So What is the Process?

Where does your recycling go?

1. Once Ever Green has gone through your area and picked up all of your recyclables, this material is brought to a sorting facility where everything gets weighed, sorted, bundled and finally recycled.

2. As most of the material that comes to our facility is mixed, or co-mingled, the first step after pick-up is for our trucks to empty out all of the material that has been collected onto a tipping floor in the sorting facility.

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3. This material then makes its way onto a conveyor belt which carries it through an initial sorting machine and into a presort room. This room is considered the decontamination room, where any rope-like items, plastic bags and all other non-recyclable material that has made it into the bins are pulled out. (If items are bagged, we often have to throw these items away as well, as there is not enough time to open and empty the bags for sorting, which is why it’s so critical that the items that you place in the bins are loose).

4. During this detailed sorting process, quality control staff members closely monitor the material that makes it through the sorting equipment, watching for and picking out any contamination that the machines may have missed. This ensures that all of the material to be distributed is clean and uncontaminated. As clean material means recyclable material, quality control is a vital part of the process.

5. Once everything has been sorted and checked for contamination, all of the remaining recyclable material is then weighed and baled into easily transportable cubes. Finally, these cubes are offered to companies who use recycled material to create their products.

As there is no limit to what can be created from recyclable materials, your recycled goods are ultimately turned into anything from packaging material, recycled paper and cardboard, simple bowls and utensils to patio furniture and ceiling tiles. Everything recyclable and uncontaminated does get recycled! And every bit truly makes a difference. 16,235,986 LBS. of material recycled since 2017!