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Starting December 4th, the Lexington Recycling Center will close its doors temporarily.

The facility serves several counties in cities across Central Kentuckyian recycles an average of 200 tons of waste per day.

Kentucky Edition visited the center this week to take a look at some of the important repair work about to get going.

>> We're going to be shutting down the facility in order to do a couple of Whatever we do is shut down.

We want to maximize that shut down time and get as much done as we can in that time frame.

We decided to replace our Baylor because of the lies is exceeded its lifespan.

We get a lot of excess material that's coming out that Baylor right now because it's not able to bail as well as it should.

So.

>> What is normally typically place after 10 years we're on like you're 14, I believe.

And so it's time to replace that he's quit Mont.

We put a lot of money into it.

And at this point that Baylor, some of the parts are becoming obsolete.

>> So it's really critical that we go ahead and replace it before we just can't replace those parts.

It'll speed up the bailing process, not by much, but it will make cleaner more efficient bales.

And so that he and then the second project that we want to focus on is our Ted fabric structure recover.

>> And so this can fabric structure.

You can see that it's been patched recently.

>> It's just getting to the point where it's time to replace it because that's what keeps our products is dry before they get into our system.

If those materials are wet, especially with all the cardboard in the paper that can clot caused Janzen cogs and the system and >> we are running time.

And so we really want to make that run as efficient as possible.

And so that helps KET our products dry so that we can continue operations.

>> There is no other location at this time.

So I just encourage the community that just hang on to those recyclables because they are valuable to us.

We don't want that material going to the landfill or the transfer station because that would cause an increase in our greenhouse gas emissions if it was to go to the landfill and also our carbon footprint.

>> So we do want to take those products because they're valuable.

Some more so than others.

And so you want to KET those products coming into our facility.

>> The new Baylor has a price tag of nearly $900,000 while the tent structure will cost another $100,000.

The Lexington Recycling Center is set to