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All thrown-out material, garbage and recycled goods eventually end up at the Camp Lejeune Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on Marine Corp Base Camp Lejeune.
The recyclable material is sent to the material refinery facility where it’s sorted and bundled.
"One of the biggest benefits for this material refinery facility is that we have the ability to divert certain material from the landfill itself," said Alicia Filzen, recycling program manager at the Municipal Solid Waste Landfill.
Paper, plastic, aluminum cans, toner cartridges, card board, spent casings and debris from demolished buildings are among the reusable material. The building debris is refurbished to help fix range roads across the installation. Thrown away organic material, manure, grass shavings and timber are used to create mulch and compost available to the public free of charge.
"Landfills used to be holes that you just dumped anything in it," said Joseph Powers, the landfill manager at the Municipal Solid Waste Landfill. "Now it’s about the environment and saving the environment by adhering to the recycling regulations protecting the environment and especially the groundwater."
The facility is able to provide tours of the landfill and recycle facility revealing how trash goes from the dumpster, to the landfill by trucks where it’s weighed and inspected for reusable or harmful waste, then transported to the landfill and compartmentalized and buried.
For more information or to make appointments call 910-451-4214.
| Date Taken: | 04.06.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 06.06.2017 14:48 |
| Story ID: | 229493 |
| Location: | CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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