A Landfill Tour

RUMPKE RECYCLING

A 45 minutes educational tour of a landfill 10 people. The landfill make people take a different look or appreciate at their garbage man. Prior to hearing about recycling most people could care less about a garbage man’s job which was simply a waste of time. Its wasn’t important enough to be considered a real job.

The group learned that one residential garbage collector may have 500 houses on their route in one day. They also showed us their truck washing station and their wheel wash. I never realized a garbage truck had to be wash or kept clean, but not we all understand why. 

Landfill maintenance is a daily responsibility. They also use large yellow water tanks to spray water throughout the landfill. Water is sprayed to keep the dust,  produced at a minimum. Its  really hard for them keeping the dust, odors and debris at a minimum. The odors can be extremely unpleasant. 

Trash sometime escapes the landfill, to keep this at a minimum landfill operators would use large screen. They even have workers that would collect the escaping plastic bags and other trash that’s caught in the wind.

At the end of the tour we all made a promise to use recycle shopping bags and return any plastic grocery bags back to the grocery store recycling bin. 

Reference

Family Friendly Cincinnati (http://familyfriendlycincinnati.com/category/family-friendly-fyi/)