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Originally Posted by New Englander
What will happen to items that won't burn like Tin/aluminum cans, glass bottles?
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Ferrous metals are picked out before they go into the burn chamber with huge electro magnets.
Non ferrous metals are separated out of the bottom ash(what's left after it's burned) with an eddy current separator. An eddy current separator induces a magnetic field in otherwise non magnetic metals and flings them out. It's an interesting machine. There are videos on youtube.
Glass and the rest end up getting buried in landfills. That said, the amount of waste is significantly reduced from what came in the door. What remains is about 5% of what came in.