Quote Originally Posted by GeorgeB View Post
The stuff we were doing, never entered the actual landful. Not sure how it was brought there, but it was in a huge pile (mountain like), and a crane would lift it onto a conveyor belt, and it would come through the shop, and then you took out the wood, cardboard, plastic, concrete/cender blocks, drywall, and metal, and the rest which would be pure junk/garbage would go to the landfill.
That's called C&D. I assume it was a Waste Management facility? They dump those big roll-offs you see at demolition, remodel, and house builder's sites and sort out of the recycleables, mainly cardboard, metal, wood, etc. Kinda the new fad in the waste management industry.