Recycle America

This is where your recycling ends up if you live in Birmingham. I used to have a theory that Birmingham had stopped recycling and they were just collecting our recyclables and dumping them in the landfill. I defended this theory by pointing out that Birmingham had gotten rid of the recyclable sorting trucks and had begun collecting with the classic garbage compacting trucks seen here. My thinking was that they were avoiding the negative publicity of ending a recycling program by continuing to pick up, even if they were just dumping them. As long as people got to separate their garbage, and as long as they saw it get picked up, they would assume the city was taking them to be recycled.Well, I was wrong, another conspiracy theory shot full of holes. I've actually seen the trucks lining up to enter Recycle America every Wednesday. Usually there are a lot more of them, lined up all the way down the street. This just happened to be the day my camera battery wasn't dead. Incidentally this is also the spot where, if you take a picture of the garbage trucks, the giant in the first truck leans out and says you don't have his permission to take his picture.