Material world

摘要

The contents of one construction site dumpster processed on August 11, 2004, at the 334 Recycling and Transfer Facility, owned and operated by Ray's Trash Service in Zionsville, Indiana, included: hundreds of 2x4 lengths, hundreds of oriented-strand board shards, tens of wood truss ends, tens of cardboard boxes, tens of aluminum cans and plastic bottles, tens of rigid insulation pieces, and tens of lengths of steel strapping. Approximately 75 to 100 dumpsters are processed every day at 334, along with 75 to 100 garbage trucks, and 5 to 10 smaller trailers. Most of the dumpsters come from construction sites; selected loads are sorted for cardboard, steel, or concrete chunks. A few objects are pulled out: bicycles and tires, among them. Everything else is transferred into 80-cubic-yard trailers that are driven southwest to the Twin Bridges landfill site in nearby Danville. There, the trucks are backed onto a platform and unhitched; tilted into the air, their contents are poured out. Thirty-two 18-wheelers arrive daily.