Material Recovery Facility (MRF)

The recycling process

Processing recyclables at the MRF.

Conveyor belts Recycling emptied onto load conveyor belts. Material travels up the belts to the first work station.
Pre-sort station This is the first step in the recycling separating process and where the contamination items are removed.
Conveyor belts/trommel Trommel is a large rotating cylinder that sorts recyclable items by size Containers and bottles (glass, plastic, aluminium) fall through bigger holes to travel up to the sort line Paper and cardboard come out the end onto the paper sort belt Steel is removed by a big magnet at the end of the trommel and drops into a storage cage for crushing
Paper sort belt Bottles, plastic and other waste are removed from this belt when items pass by Paper and cardboard then fall down a chute onto an incline feed conveyor to the baler
Sort line Plastic, glass and aluminium is sorted by hand into various categories into big storage cages
Glass silos Glass is removed by hand via the sort line and travels outside to the glass storage silos