Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs)
We operate a number of industry-leading Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) which effectively separate and recover waste recyclable materials, prior to them being sent on for further recycling and reprocessing into new products.
How does a MRF work?
The materials we treat through our MRFs include:
Paper and card
Cardboard
Steel and aluminium drinks cans
HDPE (high-density polyethylene) plastics e.g. milk jugs, detergent bottles
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastics e.g. drinks bottles, food packaging
Glass (all colours accepted)
Our MRFs segregate dry mixed recycling waste materials from both local authority kerbside collections and those from our commercial customers.
Once the materials have been separated in our MRFs, it is then baled and sent onto specialist reprocessors and manufacturers, where they are used to create new products.
The use of MRFs to sort co-mingled materials also allows us to remove any non-recyclable residual waste, which can then be sent onto Energy from Waste facilities and used as fuel source to generate electricity.
Our MRFs have an annual capacity in excess of 150,000 tonnes, and through the use of state-of-the-art sorting technology we typically recover over 90% of the materials passing through them for subsequent recycling.
All our MRFs operate to the same objective, which is to produce the cleanest, sorted and segregated recycled materials as efficiently as possible. The quality standards of our recovered materials are above the standards required by the network of reprocessors and manufacturers, to whom we send our recovered materials to.
Our Material Recycling Facilities provide efficient separation and recovery of your recyclable waste materials, improving your recycling performance.