APPENDIX C: Waste Sorting Photos


Monte Carlo Hotel

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.