 |  Interactions Access Writing, 4/e Pamela Hartmann,
Los Angeles Unified School District
James Mentel,
Los Angeles Unified School District
Recycling| Narrator: It may look like trash to you, but at Edco this is saving the environment.Worker: I work for a company that recycles today for a better tomorrow. We are a family-owned and -operated company. We started here in San Diego County, and we're based in Lemon Grove. We serve a number of jurisdictions around southern California. Narrator: Truckloads of paper, glass, and aluminum are dumped here every day. But it doesn't stop here. There is much more work to be done before actually recycling these products.Narrator 2: The most tedious is sorting. Taking the trash from the stash.Worker: Their task with sorting out the different waste streams that come in, sorting out glass from tin, from plastics and cardboard from newspaper from junk mail.Narrator: Eventually each product is separated into mountains of milk jugs, a confetti of cans, and piles of paper.Narrator 2: Just at this one location, Lemon Grove, Edco recycles 5,000 tons of materials every month. A lot of it ends up in Asia.Narrator: And imagine, this is only a fraction of what people throw away. But state mandates are forcing us to decrease our trash by increasing our recycling. And that keeps Edco in business.Worker: We're providing solutions for the environment, and we are changing the way people handle their disposal practices.
With photojournalist Memo Sevilla, Lee Ann Kim, Ten News. |
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