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On the campus of the Bakersfield ARC, employees can work in a number of places, but one of the noisiest is the material recovery facility. It’s where about half of the city’s recycling is sorted by material. “On a daily average, we do anywhere from 28 to 35 tons a day,” says Andres Lopez, the Recycling Division Manager at Bakersfield ARC. “So we’re doing a good chunk of the city’s material.” Just outside the warehouse, contents from the city’s blue bins have been dumped. A conveyor belt brings the recyclables inside, and up to a second floor platform. Workers stand along the conveyor belt, sorting items out by material. ” Every single person has a specific material they’re trying to capture,” says Lopez. “The first chute is trash, the second chute is cardboard and so on and so on.” Back on the ground floor, Jeffrey Popkin, also with the Bakersfield ARC, explains who else works there: “On that line that we were just on, there are three developmentally disabled individuals to one staff
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