Waste is brought to the hotel receiving dock and is placed in a large
hydraulic container. The container is lifted and waste is dumped onto a
table for sorting. Plastics, paper and alunimum are commingled in the white
compactor. Waste is placed in the orange compactor for disposal.
Monte Carlo Hotel
A Silver State Disposal employee sorts hotel waste. Glass is separated
by color into 32-gallon containers. Containers are dumped into separate
3-cubic yard dumpsters, one each for clear, brown and green glass.
Sante Fe Hotel
White commingled recycling compactor containing plastic, cardboard and
aluminum. White dumpsters (between truck and compactor) contain glass sorted
by color.
Sante Fe Hotel
Can lifter and sorting table on the left. Commingled recycling compactors
on the right. The Santa Fe's receiving dock is too small for a cardboard
baler, so cardboard is placed in the recycling compactor along with other
recyclable material.
Sante Fe Hotel
Commingled recycling compactor on the left. Three 3-cubic yard dumpsters
for colored glass separation.
MGM Grand
Cardboard balers.
Maxim Hotel
Waste chute for hotel room trash. Unlike most other hotels where trash
is brought to the sorting area by hotel employees, the Maxim uses a chute
for hotel room waste. The chute empties into a large garbage container
on the hotel dock, where waste is retrieved for sorting.
Maxim Hotel
Waste Management Inc./RC Farms Employee sorts hotel waste. Waste is
placed in the orange compactor for disposal. Aluminum, glass, and plastic
are recovered and placed in plastic bags and picked up for recycling. Cardboard
is baled and picked up for recycling.
Maxim Hotel
Waste Management Inc./RC Farms employee takes bags of waste from the
black garbage can and sorts it on the table. Waste is placed in the orange
compactor for disposal. Aluminum and plastic is sorted into the 32 gallon
containers behind him. Clint Combs from Waste Management Inc./RC Farms
monitors the sorting.
Maxim Hotel
Sorted plastic and aluminum ready for pick-up.
Bally's Hotel
Refrigerated storage area for food waste containers. Recovered items
are stored in the green cabinet. Items will be inventoried and returned
to the hotel for cleaning and reuse.
Bally's Hotel
Food waste is placed in a specific container at the end of the sorting table. Green leafy lettuce waste is placed in top to help contain odor. The Food waste container will be picked up, and taken to the pig farm for further processing.
Planet Hollywood
Waste Management Inc./RC Farms employee sorts waste. Clint Combs monitors the waste sorting on a visit to the restaurant.
The Hacienda (now closed)
Blue food waste bins located on the Hacienda receiving dock.
RC Farms
Jill Combs from RC Farms.
RC Farms
Clint Combs from RC Farms.