It doesn’t go where you think.
Photo: Ali Cherkis
By 1 a.m. and about 12 blocks and a similar number of bins away from where we started, Innone offers to drop me at the subway. The sanitation workers will continue their shift into the early morning, but we agree I have gotten the gist. It’s already late and I’ve decided to pace myself. There’s a long way to go.
This is the sorting phase of the process, and no fewer than six Waste Management employees have been assembled to take me around. First, we watch as the trucks line up to be weighed, since customers pay by weight to dump. “Is it priced by pound?” I ask. “,” everyone responds in unison, and we all laugh at my inability to grasp orders of magnitude.
The resulting muck is not compost. Nor is it soil. It is, I’m told, EBS®. “What is EBS®?” I asked. “Engineered bioslurry,” my Waste Management guides tell me, a product of their proprietary system. There are two 60,000-gallon tanks full of engineered bioslurry that are in the same space, but kept behind a white curtain like ladies in a changing room.
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