14 DAY TRIAL // The city of Glendale in the state of Arizona in the United States is expected to soon triple the amount of trash it recycles on a yearly basis.
This is thanks to a new facility that is currently under construction in this part of the country, and that is scheduled to open later this year, in April.
The plant's working agenda will boil down to finding items and materials that can be recycled.
According to Clean Techies, the facility will sit at a distance of just a few miles from the University of Phoenix stadium. Once completed, it will cover a surface of 6 acres.
The same source details that, when up and running, the plant will employ a staff of about 40-50 people, whose job will be to go through the trash and pick and choose bits and pieces of plastic or glass that can be collected and put to better use.
The facility will also help reduce on the amount of metal that ends up in landfills. Thus, a large magnet will serve to detect object made from said material.
Paper products are also on the list of items this plant is expected to retrieve from trash.
Chicago-based Vieste, i.e. the company in charge of erecting the facility, expects that, once the plant goes online, it will be able to recover an impressive 26,000 tons of recyclable items on a yearly basis.
To put things into perspective, it must be said that, for the time being, the city of Glendale recycles just 12.99 tons of trash yearly.
This is because the items that are recycled are only the ones that people living in this urban area sort and place in special bins.
Interestingly enough, Vieste plans to also fit this facility with technology that will allow it to use trash to produce electricity.
The company expects that, once this technology is set in place, the plant will be able to go through 800 tons of trash daily. The resulting energy generating capacity is expected to be one of 54 megawatts.