Materials Recovery Facility

What is the Materials Recovery Facility?

After your recycling is collected, they are taken to the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).   All recyclables pass through a series of conveyors and screens to separate the material according to size.

Employees at the facility then manually remove contamination (items that cannot be recycled). Plastic, paper and cardboard are individually baled and sold for recycling into new items.

Interactive Tour

Check out the new Interactive Tour of the MRF where you can see the stages involved in recycling!  Or have a look at the Image Gallery. 

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   View of the sorting area

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   More employees sorting items

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   A view of the main loading area

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   Cardboard on the conveyor belt

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   Items on the conveyor belt

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   The end of the sorting line

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   Bulldozer sorting recycling items

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   Truck loading recycling

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   Paper items being sorted

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    The loading area

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