Once enacted, a new law will make producers of packaging and paper products pay membership dues to fund local and state recycling programs.
A loader moves unprocessed recyclables at Lake Shore Recycling's The Exchange facility on Aug. 28, 2023.
For now, the Department of Streets and Sanitation crews empty the blue carts along their routes and take the recyclable material to a service yard called a transfer station. Recyclable materials are consolidated into larger vehicles and transported to one of three LRS material recovery facilities in Forest View, Northbrook or The Exchange on the South Side to be processed.
Though the new material recovery facility officially opened Aug. 9, operations started in February and have been scaled up gradually. Since March, 90% of Chicago’s Blue Cart materials have been processed at The Exchange, which LRS representatives say can recycle 10 more tons per hour than the center in Forest View.
A paper screen separates flat material like paper and small pieces of fiber from material like containers like jugs, tubs, jars and bottles.
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