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Major effort to recycle huge amounts of Sandy debris

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    Rick Leventhal reports from Queens, New York

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Today marks three months since super storm sandy devastated parts of -- northeastern US a major effort now under way to recycle huge amounts of all their -- -- sandy left behind him.

Crews say they might be able to -- use everything from fallen tree branches -- Well with chunks of concrete Rick Leventhal is live -- Rocco always queens New York.

For us tonight -- they still working there tonight right.

They are -- rain or shine X debaters in front end loaders worked till midnight and cranked back up again at 4 AM -- while the truck traffic slows.

At night you could see one behind his right they're just rolled away headed for a landfill a lot of the heavy equipment separates other materials into recyclables in separate -- the so called white good appliances like refrigerators washer dryers that need to be.

Trip down to hazardous materials can be removed.

And similar operations are running around the clock in New Jersey -- up to 85% of materials being recycled.

There's overwhelming there were.

So much debris bad.

-- just kept coming coming in to the point where our building where we -- our garbage was completely fall.

The amount of debris truly staggering twelve million cubic yards collected so far bill and some of what is collected is going to be given back to the people how will that work where.

Yeah recyclers caught vegetative debris and there's a site just down the road from -- here that has so much good -- trees that.

It could fill -- football field how higher than the goal post -- a lot of that is ground down into mulch a lot of dissidents is incinerated with special equipment.

And then some of the -- is actually offered back to the public and we met a guy with his -- sawmill.

Who's -- -- -- sandy bull fallen trees and making counter tops and furniture whether.

A manufacturer product that can be used again -- -- can say.

This came from sandy the storm that pin for excellent people and that's positive that came out of -- and -- your mind dining room.

It was -- in my living room on kitchen counter top and I can use it.

So a lot of progress and so much work left to be done deal there is Rick Leventhal thanks reporting for us tonight.

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