ADVISORY/Nation's Premier Recycling Facility to Open Wednesday, March 5 on San Francisco's Pier 96.News Desks/Environmental Writers ADVISORY...for March 5 (Wednesday) NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available Photos are available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.030303/bb12 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.030303/bb12a --(BUSINESS WIRE) Full access to the 200,000-square-foot "Recycle Central" facility, professional video and digital photos available beginning Wednesday morning March 5, 2003 Press Conference Recycle Central, the premier recycling facility in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , will officially open at noon Wednesday, March 5, 2003. San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Mayor Willie Brown The name Willie Brown may refer to:
A Working Alternative to Landfill Recycle Central is located on Pier 96 in San Francisco's Bay View District and brings the most effective mechanical systems for sorting recyclables under one roof. Recyclables in this 200,000-square-foot plant are separated using a combination of specialized equipment and hand sorting. Sorted materials are baled and loaded into cargo containers for shipment to paper mills, glass plants and manufacturing facilities that produce new consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and from yesterday's discards. Unique Visuals Spinning disk screens send bottles and cans in one direction, float paper in another and further sort paper into independent streams of newsprint and mixed paper (magazines, cardboard and junk mail See spam and junk faxes. .) A giant vacuum system vacuum system Urology A mechanical system used to facilitate and maintain an erection; an erection erector. Cf Penile implant. sucks computer paper, envelopes and letterhead off conveyer belts and automatically sends clean material to baling machines. A powerful magnet pulls steel and tin cans tin cans put on car of newlyweds leaving ceremony. [Am. Cult.: Misc.] See : Marriage off the sorting fbelt and flips them into a large storage cage. Aluminum cans fly off the belt as if by magic thanks to another machine called an eddy current separator. Nation's Most Aggressive and Effective Recycling Program San Francisco's recycling program makes recycling easy and convenient. People simply place paper, bottles and cans together in a blue cart. No more sorting paper from bottles and cans at home or work. Instead, recyclables are separated at Recycle Central. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has set a goal of achieving 75 percent recycling citywide by 2010. Recycle Central provides the industrial sorting systems necessary for San Francisco to process its own recyclables and divert hundreds of thousands of tons of recyclable materials from landfill. For more photos and information to go to: www.NorcalWaste.com Note: Photos available at URLs: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.030303/bb12 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.030303/bb12a |
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