All You Need To Know About Material Recovery Facilities

By gsau March 23, 2020 Waste Sorting Plant

A material recovery facility removes and sorts recyclables from the waste stream. This helps get rid of trash from the waste stream. Some of the materials that material recovery facilities sort include cardboard, plastics, glass bottles and jars, cartons, paper materials, metal containers such as steel and aluminum cans and glass bottles and jars.

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One of the major advantages of a materials recycling facility is the fact that it helps make the environment clean by encouraging the recycling of recyclable materials. Material recovery facilities can either specialize in removing and sorting clean materials or dirty materials. After sorting these materials, a material recovery facility sells them to manufacturers.

 

There are both small and large MRFs. These facilities vary in size and configuration. Small material recovery facilities are not highly automated and deal with a small number of recyclables while large material recovery facilities deal with a large number of recyclables and have highly automated equipment. There are two common types of material recovery facilities: clean material recovery facilities and dirty material recovery facilities.

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Clean Material Recovery Facilities

 

A clean material recovery facility deals with recyclable materials that have been sorted from where they came from. The trash is sourced from municipal solid waste from residential or commercial areas.  There are many types of clean material recovery facilities. The most common type of clean material recovery facility is the single stream type where all the materials are mixed.

 

Dual-stream material recovery facilities, on the other hand, receive materials that have been separated from where they came from in a mixed container stream including non-ferrous metals and ferrous metals and a mixed paper stream which includes office paper, newspapers and corrugated cardboard boxes.

 

Dirty Material Recovery Facilities

 

A dirty material recovery facility also known as a mixed-waste processing facility is a solid waste disposal plant that deals with a mixed solid stream. The main aim of such facilities is to get those materials that were incorrectly thrown out as trash. Once such a facility receives recyclables, it sorts them using both manual and mechanical sorting.

 

After sorting these materials, the facility will process the materials so that they can meet the technical specifications required by the market. The facility will send the remaining stream to a disposal facility like a landfill. Dirty material recovery facilities have higher recovery rates than clean material recovery facilities. This is because it sorts 100% of the waste stream.

It is also able to target more materials for recovery than what can be sorted at the place where the recyclable materials come from. Dirty materials facility materials are usually heavier mainly because of the organic materials in the trash. The major problem with dirty material recovery facilities is the fact that it contaminates recyclables particularly paper. It is also costly to operate a dirty material recovery facility since it is more labor-intensive.

 

One of the major problems that material recovery facilities deal with is unwanted materials like large objects and plastic bags. Such materials require manual sorting and can make recovering materials a challenging task. Another problem is the declining market for the products that these facilities make and the lower prices for these products.

 

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