RECYCLING - Where trash becomes treasure

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RECYCLING - Where trash becomes treasure

Mar 12, 2008
By Talis Saule Archdeacon

PLASTIC PARADE: The plant uses bulldozers to slowly feed bottles into the conveyor, where they are then sent on for processing.

RIGA - As the old saying goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s gold.” This has never been truer than at L&T’s huge new recycling plant in Riga. The Finnish owned company L&T runs the whole gamut of the recycling business. Located in the central part of Riga’s industrial zone, the plant makes a tidy profit by collecting trash, sorting it, processing it and selling the raw materials gleaned from the old waste. What it can’t use gets sent to a landfill to decompose. “I don’t hav ...

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