Winston-Salem resident Stephanie Bennett is a WFDD listener and wants to know more about something that most of us do every day. She's serious about recycling but doesn't understand why it can be so complicated. And when she goes to the city's website to demystify the process, the instructions are involved.
"Automatically you're confused about what can be recycled and what can't,” she says.
For this edition of Carolina Curious, WFDD's Bethany Chafin and Stephanie Bennett head to a local recycling facility to sort it out.
Inside the MRF
In hard hats and steel-toed boots, we watch as a giant conveyor belt moves truckloads of recycling that's been collected around Winston-Salem into a material recovery facility, or MRF.
This is where it's all sorted, and Stephanie and I are already mesmerized. Richie Huckabe