The grim discovery was made at a facility in Sante Fe Springs, California, and now investigators are working to determine whether foul play was involved.
An investigation has been launched after the body of a man was discovered inside a recycling plant on Monday afternoon.
The grim find was made shortly before midday at the facility in Sante Fe Springs, California, according to local news channelWorkers at the center, in the 9000 block of Norwalk Boulevard near Los Nietos Road, told ABC 7 that they had been sent home for the rest of the day as the police probe unfolded.
A file photo of a recycling center. Investigators are seeking to determine how the body of a man came to be at the recycling plant in Santa Fe Springs.Aerial footage of the plant, filmed by ABC 7, showed police tape sealing off an open door to the facility, with officers ducking underneath it as they came and went.It isn't the first time human remains have been discovered at a recycling plant.at a recycling center in Texas in December 2020.
Kristen Dark of Travis County Sheriff's Office said:"Most likely, this body got here off a truck." She said she believed the death was suspicious, and that the investigation was in the early stages and added that an autopsy would"determine if foul play was involved.", in Washington state. The body arrived with recyclables at the plant in Pierce County, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the working theory was that the man was homeless and had climbed inside a dumpster before the receptacle was picked up and taken to the landfill.
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