The company invested over $20m to create an advanced single-stream technology plant in operation at a former brownfield site.
The Philadelphia MRF has the capacity to sort and process more than 20,000 tons of recyclable newspaper, cardboard, aluminum, glass and plastic each month.
The 60,000sq ft facility also captures materials that were historically discarded, such as film plastic and rigid plastics, expanding the range of materials that can be recycled.
In a single-stream system, residents and commercial customers place recyclables in a single container for pickup and no longer need to separate these materials in their homes or workplaces.
The plant accepts materials from the City of Philadelphia’s single-stream residential collection program as well as from other communities and commercial customers in the region.
The company said the facility was constructed using sustainable building and design techniques and has received LEED Silver certification from the US Green Building Council.
This project is part of the company’s sustainability initiative to nearly triple the amount of recyclable materials it recovers, from approximately eight million tons today to over 20 million tons by 2020.
