Every year, the City of Austin collects hundreds of thousands of tons of trash from residents through its curbside collection service. But what happens to all of this trash after the city collects it?
In 2021, Austin Resource Recovery collected 138,955 tons of trash through its curbside collection service.
Once the trash is dumped, it gets flattened into a tightly packed layer by a machine called a landfill compactor. "The weight of that machine, and those wheels, with the big spikes on it, compacts the waste down very tightly," he said."Our objective is to take three cubic yards and compact it down into one yard.""I know it’s probably not the technical term, but I think of it kind of like a lasagna," said TDS spokesperson Leticia Mendoza."There’s waste and then there’s soil, there’s waste and there’s soil.
"There aren’t many creatures [or] birds flying around because of the process that we use," she said."We don’t give them enough time to be able to find the waste."
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