OK, so I may be a bit slow, however I guess I'm not the only one confused with regard to Auburn's recycling program.

When recycling was instituted here in Auburn, we were required to separate all items for recycling by material type, i.e.: glass/metal/plastic/newsprint/cardboard.

Recently, I have been informed quite informally, that glass/metal/plastic can all be thrown in together - somehow, this just doesn't compute!

My quandary is how are these totally dissimilar materials going to be recycled when all thrown in together, crushed in the garbage truck to become one mass of crushed and broken materials?

Does the city of Auburn have some magic machine that does the sorting of cycled materials?

If so, they'd better tell the world about it - might even save some of the multitude of trucks coming from New York City raising havoc with our streets and roadways.

Sure hope someone has an answer to this.

Nelson C. Jameson

Auburn