Tuesday, August 13, 2013

march 2013: preschool field trip to northwest recycling

brooklin's class went on a field trip to our recycling center here in Bellingham.  it was neat to see what they do with all of the paper, plastic, and glass that they pick up from our homes.  it was quite smelly, but i guess that's to be expected. 
 
paper waiting to be strapped
 i recognized those pallets of paper from my former place of employ.  there were several more, i'd say about 50.  i wonder if that was a big oops or just getting rid of old inventory.  hopefully the latter.

the stapper. 
that's my official name for it, because i can't remember what they called it.


this is what it looks like after it gets strapped.  nice "little" bundles.

all of the preschoolers standing on the scale.
 
check out their combined weight.

 it was kind of funny, as we were walking back i looked down and noticed i was walking on the scale. i quick hurried and jumped off.  i don't need that kind of information advertised. :)
 
 
the bottles smelled the worst!



 
i really wish i could figure out how to get my videos to load because i took some really awesome video of some cars being scrapped.  it was by far the favorite part of the trip.

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