Fluctuating prices leave recycling industry at mercy of supply and demand
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Debbie Dykes pushes aluminum cans into a garbage baler machine at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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A compressed block of aluminum cans at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Crushed plastic bottles before being baled in a baler at the Leechburg Recycling Center.
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Volunteers work at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Dennis Duppstadt, a volunteer starts a garbage balers machine at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Dennis Duppstadt, a volunteer at the Leechburg Recycling Cennter, explains the garbage compressing operation at the Leechburg facility.
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Volunteers work at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Bales of recycling products at the Leechburg Recycling Center, before being transported to a processor.
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A bunch of aluminum cans before being crushed at the Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Volunteers moving recyclables at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Volunteers work at Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Books, magazines and mail held in a box at the Leechburg Recycling Center in Leechburg.
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Fully recycled glass at Carry All Products Inc. of East Huntingdon Township.
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Fully recycled glass at Carry All Products Inc. of East Huntingdon Township, separated by color.
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Materiel to be recycled is sorted at Carry All Products Inc. in East Huntingdon Township,
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Glass to be recycled at Carry All Products Inc. in East Huntingdon Township.
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Glass is ground into fine pieces at Carry All Products Inc. of East Huntingdon Township.
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Chris Koontz of Carry All Products Inc., of East Huntingdon Township, kicks through a pile of trash to be recycled.
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Televisions dropped off for recycling sit inside Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling center in Unity.
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A scorecard listing players for the 1962 Pittsburgh Pirates was one of the unusual items saved from recycling by workers at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling Center in Unity. The scorecard features some famous names including Roberto Clemente, Dick Groat, Don Hoak, Bill Mazeroski and Bill Virdon.
Bill Shields, maintenance worker at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling Center, takes a box of cardboard from a car for recycling at the Unity Township.
Polystyrene foam is melted and condensed after going through a densifying machine at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling Center in Unity.
Mike Uschak of Derry Township tosses items into a bin for recycling at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling Center in Unity.
Mike Skapura, executive director at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling Center, shows a bale of 948 pounds of plastic bags at the Unity facility.
Jon Green, recycling center attendant, moves plastics into a larger Dumpster at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling in Unity.
