Davis Street Transfer Center

This facility is quite remarkable if you think about it. It recycles the materials it gets by separating the trash that it takes in. The facility is there to help the reduction of the landfills. The center separates and composts 75% of the materials that they get.We learned that a lot of people throw away a lot of things that can be recycled and that as long as they don't see it they don't care. The problem is that it is easier not to recycle but to have someone else do it for us.
The transfer station takes the trash and finds things that can be recycled or made into compost and they recycle them such as plastic and electronics.the thing that most people don't know is that the trash is thrown into landfills and there they sit . The landfills are holes in the ground that you trash into and in the end product it is a mound in which they put fake grass and make it look like a mountain.The landfills have a protective plastic surrounding so that the liquid can't escape. The landfill in our Alameda County is Located in Livermore and it is called the Altamont.