The newspaper you just threw in your recycling bin begins a wild new life if it’s processed at a recycling center on Fruitridge Road in Sacramento. That’s because newspapers, soda cans, cardboard boxes and all kinds of recyclable goods move through a huge, mechanical system at the Sacramento Recycling and Transfer Station owned by BLT Enterprises. Midtown businessman and environmentalist Scott Smithline describes BLT’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) system as a “Willy Wonka-like” process for recyclables. At the end of their journey at the MRF, the recyclables are combined by type. General Manager Kurt Standen explained that the materials are “squashed into these rectangular bales th