How does single-stream recycling work?
Once the recyclables are collected, the materials are transported via a conveyor through a presort house where trash, cardboard and municipal scrap are removed by hand. The materials then fall on two large, upward sloping screens. Each screen consists of a series of shafts which have more than 210 rubber discs. The shafts rotate at a high rate of speed as the rubber discs sort the materials according to size to determine which direction each item should take. The discs carry paper items upward to another conveyor for further manual sorting. The rigid containers fall back on the conveyor and are carried to another area in the MRF for sorting. Cincinnati’s MBF is able to process approximately 300 torts of materials per day. “In order for this process to be successful to Rumpke, we need to keep the same high quality, marketable materials that were captured before,” said Steve Sargent, general manager, recycling operations. “With this new technology, we’ve consistently seen tlie quality-we
Once the recyclables are collected, the materials are transported via a conveyor through a presort house where trash, cardboard and municipal scrap are removed by hand. The materials then fall on two large, upward sloping screens. Each screen consists of a series of shafts which have more than 210 rubber discs. The shafts rotate at a high rate of speed as the rubber discs sort the materials according to size to determine which direction each item should take. The discs carry paper items upward to another conveyor for further manual sorting. The rigid containers fall back on the conveyor and are carried to another area in the MRF for sorting. Cincinnati’s MBF is able to process approximately 300 torts of materials per day. “In order for this process to be successful to Rumpke, we need to keep the same high quality, marketable materials that were captured before,” said Steve Sargent, general manager, recycling operations. “With this new technology, we’ve consistently seen tlie quality-we
