In most areas of the country more than half of recyclables don’t enter the recycling system because those items are thrown in the trash. But Portsmouth’s taking that trash and making sure certain materials are recovered.
More than 100 tons of garbage move through Portsmouth RDS’s MSW transfer facility daily. Roughly a quarter of that waste is made of recyclable items that were thrown away.
“We’d like to go where the garbage is, where the goods are,” explained AMP Robotics Corp. director and head of product Carson Potter as he walked News 3 through the facility…