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1/14 Before curbside cans, bottles, paper, cardboard, and plastic packaging are recycled, they need to be sorted. This can be a complicated process. For this week's #FacilityFriday thread, let's look at the role Material Recovery Facilities play in our recycling system. @CLF
2/14 A Material Recovery Facility or MRF (“murf”) is a facility that uses a combination of machines and manual labor to sort commingled recyclables like glass, aluminum, paper, cardboard, and plastic into separate streams. #FacilityFriday bit.ly/3x9sRr6
3/14 Importantly, MRFs don’t actually recycle any of the materials they process. Instead, they prepare the recyclables so that they can be sold to companies who will use them for manufacturing new products. #FacilityFriday
