Transfer Station
On a brisk Saturday morning of January 10th, 2018, Alan's A block APES class took a bus over to the Waste Transfer Station of Andover, New Hampshire. After getting off the bus and being welcomed by a cold breeze we began our journey around the transfer site. Immediately stepping out of the vehicle, we are greeted with the sign below...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
This sign indicates that the people of Andover pay taxes to have this transfer site, so if you don't have a sticker than you can NOT dump at this site.
The first place we stropped at was the general waste compacter picutred below...
(picture by A.J. Fox)
Alan told us these containers are compacted and then weighed before being shipped of to an incinerator. This is an unfortunate part of waste management since it is the cheapest way for residents to dispose of their trash becaus ethey don't have to pay extra for recycling and reuse recycling. They simply just through all their trash into this machine and head off. We saw newspaper in there that could have been recycled but instead we are paying to dispose of it unproperly.
Next we headed off to the warm and cozy swap building..
(photos by A.J. Fox)
In here you found a little bit of everything from paintings to furniture and books. Basically the main priciple here is that one mans trash is another one's treasure. Even Cooper found a toy airplane that he wanted to bring back to school. The only downside of this was that we were greeted with a large amount of television's with cathode rays in them. Which is not only terrible for the environment, they had no where to put them because they can't be thrown out. So they were simply left in here.
Our next stop was the recycling compressor...
(photos by A.J. Fox)
This allowed you to only recycle certain things, as you can see in the picture posted on the compressor. Very nice but cost money as well.
Right next to the compressor was the glass recycling bin...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
This is very expensive to recycle and currently there is so much glass in the world Alan told us we don't know where to put it all, making it more expensive to dispose of.
From here we moved on to the wood and furniture disposal...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
Then we moved on to the metal and scrap metals recycling ...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
Here recycling is very expensive because toxic parts like anit freeze must be removed before being processed. This cost extra money for the person recycling this type of material which can make it an unappealing option for some.
After that we went on to the Swap shop...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
Alan told us this shop open up a couple times a year and can be a lot of fun and is good for the planet because we are reusing and repurposing things.
Last but not least we arrived at the motor oil recycling shed which is cool because you can simply filter out motor oil and it will be good as new...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
Reflection:
After going to the transfer plant i think it opened up to me how much different variations of recycling there really is. You think recycling is juet a one way street, either you can recycle it or not. But in reality there are many different forms of recycling and reusing waste. It was a great experience and am happy I was able to go. I also never eralized that trash that we dont recycle simply gets incinerated. I thought at the processing plant they recycle what they find but they actually just burn it all up. ): After visiting this I will be more diligent about my recycling because I rather take the extra aeffort to make sure I am recycling properly and safely then have it all get incinerated and release toxins into the air I breath.
(photo by A.J. Fox)This sign indicates that the people of Andover pay taxes to have this transfer site, so if you don't have a sticker than you can NOT dump at this site.
The first place we stropped at was the general waste compacter picutred below...
(picture by A.J. Fox)Alan told us these containers are compacted and then weighed before being shipped of to an incinerator. This is an unfortunate part of waste management since it is the cheapest way for residents to dispose of their trash becaus ethey don't have to pay extra for recycling and reuse recycling. They simply just through all their trash into this machine and head off. We saw newspaper in there that could have been recycled but instead we are paying to dispose of it unproperly.
Next we headed off to the warm and cozy swap building..
(photos by A.J. Fox)In here you found a little bit of everything from paintings to furniture and books. Basically the main priciple here is that one mans trash is another one's treasure. Even Cooper found a toy airplane that he wanted to bring back to school. The only downside of this was that we were greeted with a large amount of television's with cathode rays in them. Which is not only terrible for the environment, they had no where to put them because they can't be thrown out. So they were simply left in here.
Our next stop was the recycling compressor...
(photos by A.J. Fox)This allowed you to only recycle certain things, as you can see in the picture posted on the compressor. Very nice but cost money as well.
Right next to the compressor was the glass recycling bin...
(photo by A.J. Fox)This is very expensive to recycle and currently there is so much glass in the world Alan told us we don't know where to put it all, making it more expensive to dispose of.
From here we moved on to the wood and furniture disposal...
(photo by A.J. Fox)Then we moved on to the metal and scrap metals recycling ...
(photo by A.J. Fox)Here recycling is very expensive because toxic parts like anit freeze must be removed before being processed. This cost extra money for the person recycling this type of material which can make it an unappealing option for some.
After that we went on to the Swap shop...
(photo by A.J. Fox)Alan told us this shop open up a couple times a year and can be a lot of fun and is good for the planet because we are reusing and repurposing things.
Last but not least we arrived at the motor oil recycling shed which is cool because you can simply filter out motor oil and it will be good as new...
(photo by A.J. Fox)
Reflection:
After going to the transfer plant i think it opened up to me how much different variations of recycling there really is. You think recycling is juet a one way street, either you can recycle it or not. But in reality there are many different forms of recycling and reusing waste. It was a great experience and am happy I was able to go. I also never eralized that trash that we dont recycle simply gets incinerated. I thought at the processing plant they recycle what they find but they actually just burn it all up. ): After visiting this I will be more diligent about my recycling because I rather take the extra aeffort to make sure I am recycling properly and safely then have it all get incinerated and release toxins into the air I breath.
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