Perinton, N.Y. – The search for a missing Jewish worship item is expected to continue next week.

After two days of searching, the have returned to Brooklyn for now. So far, they’ve sifted through 16 containers full of trash and there are 16 more set aside waiting to be looked through.

In the meantime, Waste Management is confident the 3,000 tons of trash they have set aside at the High Acres Landfill to be searched contains the missing Tefillin, an object received by a Hasidic boy at his Bar Mitzvah.

It’s considered irreplaceable, and they are expected to take every step possible to find it if lost.

Surveillance video showing the bag containing the Tefillin falling into a garbage can at the Lee Gardens Synagogue is key to knowing where the Tefillin ended up.

Much like how products are tracked before consumption, trash is tracked from the moment it’s picked up, all the way to the landfill.

“Much like a FedEx or UPS, our fleet is equipped with technology that is used to track our vehicles exact location and time,” said Jeffrey Richardson, Waste Management Senior District Manager. “That information, coupled with the surveillance video from the synagogue, we were able to isolate the certain portion of material and designate that for search.”

The group is expected to return at the beginning of next week to continue the search. If not, Richardson said Waste Management will continue to search for them.

“We're invested now," said Richardson, "we want to find this. We're working with them now and we're about halfway through the process.”