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April 4, 2013 3:33 PM
Center offers inside look at recycling in Lexington
Recycling program specialist Esther Moherly, told Oliver Bennett, 7, Elena Rust, 6, and Derek Banta, 9, how aluminum cans are recycled during a public tour Thursday of the Lexington recycling center. The recycling center holds public tours eight times a year: on the first Thursday and Saturday in January, April, July and October. The tours show visitors how the center sorts and separates materials. Moherly said aluminum brings in the most money, about $700 for one of the cubes in the background. Photo by Paige Thomson | Staff
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Cole Bennett, his son Oliver, 7, and Oliver's friend Elena Rust, 6, watched equipment push out cubes of recycled cardboard during a tour of the Lexington recycling center Thursday. Including plastic bags is the most common mistake people make in their city recycling containers, recycling program specialist Esther Moherly told them. Photo by Paige Thomson | Staff
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Recycling program specialist Esther Moherly led a public tour of the city's recycling center Thursday, April 4, 2013. Recycled glass is collected by the center and sent to other centers to keep it out of landfills. The glass is crushed at the center in to small pieces that are almost sand like. The center doesn't make money on glass. Photos by Paige Thomson | Staff
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Oliver Bennett, 7, tested the solidity of cubes of recycled plastic bottles during a tour of the Lexington recycling center Thursday. Photo by Paige Thomson | Staff
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An orange cat hid among stacks of recycled paper during a public tour of the Lexington recycling center Thursday. Recycling program specialist Esther Moherly said the cats were strays. The cats have been neutered, and they are kept around for pest control. Recycling center employee Lauren Monahan said the cats stay away from the machines during the day. Photos by Paige Thomson | Staff
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Oliver, left, and Cole Bennett watched as paper fell to the floor of the Lexington recycling center, where it will be turned in to bales of paper. Esther Moherly, recycling program specialist, said the center receives more newspaper than any other recyclable. Photos by Paige Thomson | Staff
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From left, Elena Rust, 6, Oliver Bennett, 7, and Derek Banta, 9, watched as a machine picked up recycled materials off the tipping floor at the Lexington recycling center during a public tour Thursday. Photos by Paige Thomson | Staff
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Elena Rust, 6, and Oliver Bennett, 7, touched a pile of milk cartons and plastics while Cole Bennett watched during a public tour of the Lexington recycling center on Thursday. Photo by Paige Thomson | Staff
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From left, Britt Banta, Oliver Bennett, Derek Banta, Elena Rust and recycling program specialist Esther Moherly watched as a digger moved recycled waste at the Lexington recycling center Thursday. Photo by Paige Thomson | Staff
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