Does Wimbledon recycle?
The Club removes approximately 750 tonnes of waste from the site during a typical Championship, mostly in the form of food packaging. All waste from The All England Club (including all waste produced throughout the remainder of the year) is handled by the Materials Reclamation Facility (MRF) — known as ‘Murf’ — by the waste contractor Grundons. At the MRF the material is sorted via a series of tunnel mills which remove the main paper and fabric items; the remaining waste travels over a conveyor system that removes ferrous metals using a large electro-magnet, non-ferrous metals are removed by electrostatic means while at the same time the material is put through various rollers that breaks glass items so the cullet is removable via selective screens. The remainder is then hand sorted over open conveyors to remove any plastics and odd paper/fabric items that were missed by the initial tunnel mills. The final waste is both putresable and non-putresable waste suitable for landfill.
