At the Davis Street Transfer Center, all the trash and the recycling from Alameda County goes here. The transfer center collects all the garbage the gets dumped into the"pit" where all the garbage goes. In the "pit" a giant machine rolls over all the garbage to create more room. Also to keep birds away from the garbage to prevent them from eating the garbage, the transfer center has a machine the generates a loud sound, similar to a gun to keep birds away.
I've learned that a lot of items that are being thrown away don't belong where they should be. At the transfer center I saw a lot of bottles and cardboard boxes that could have been recycled, but instead have been in the garbage pile. And the most shocking thing of all that I saw that could have been recycled was a refrigerator. We could make the worker's jobs at the transfer center easier if we just all our recyclables in the right categories.
After the garbage is done being sorted at the transfer center, the garbage then gets transfered to the landfill in Livermore. A landfill is a place where all the garbage goes. Usually landfills are located in remote areas. Also some "hills" you might see when you're in your car on a country side might really garbage hills because most landfills are artificial hills.
The Davis Street Transfer Center is a waste treatment facility that serves 20 Bay Area cities. The facilities goal is to divert 75% of municipal trash away from landfills and into recyclable materials.
Davis Street Transfer Center
Recycle plastics and bottles
Recycle wood into garden mulch which fertilizes the ground
Process yard trimmings for compost
Recycle e-waste: old computers, electronic equipment and cell phones
http://www.dsgardencenter.com/index.asp
Information about landfills
http://science.howstuffworks.com/landfill.htm
