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  Haywood County North Carolina Government: RECYCLING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Materials Recovery Facility is located on Recycle Road in Clyde, N.C. and operates Monday through Saturday, 7:30 a.m.
Materials accepted at the Materials Recovery Facility are residential trash, commercial waste, industrial waste, appliances, furniture, carpet, mattresses and boxsprings, and metals.
This material must be contained in 6 mil plastic and hauled to White Oak Landfill.
www.gov.co.haywood.nc.us /recycling.html   (660 words)

  
 Material Recovery Facility
As its name implies, an MRF is a small facility/waste treatment plant to recover as much as possible of the materials thrown away by populations in communities in an environmentally friendly way.
A Rotary Drum Composter™ is the building block of such a facility, especially when the waste stream is high in organic waste.
Backview of the Kfarsir MRF in South Lebanon.
www.cedarenv.com /MRF.htm   (206 words)

  
 MRF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The new facility was built to accommodate the projected processing needs of Lee County for the next 10 years.
The larger facility and advances in technology enabled Lee County to enhance the recycling program by adding computer paper, office paper, and junk mail to the curb-side, multi- family, and commercial recycling programs in January of 2002.
Commingled materials are dumped in one area and then the fiber material is dumped in a different area.
www.lee-county.com /solidwaste/Facilities/MRF.htm   (383 words)

  
 Material Recovery Facility manufactured by ENTERPRISE COMPANY
In material recovery, the MRFs primary function is performed by physically removing designated materials such as plastics, fibers, metals, and glass from the solid waste stream.
Modern MRFs, particularly those located in large industrialized metropolitan areas, may be designed to process over 1,000 tons of material every day.
MRFs in less densely populated rural areas, usually processing 100 tons or less of waste per day, are smaller operations with simpler designs.
www.enterpriseco.com /enterprise/mrf.html   (328 words)

  
 Desert Dispatch newspaper - Barstow, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The chips, available at the Victor Valley Material Recovery Facility, 17000 Abbey Lane, made excellent mulch for gardens, conserving irrigation water that the Mojave Water Agency says accounts for 70 percent of local water consumption.
Davis was looking into replenishing his bins, which are located alongside the facility building, and by Thursday afternoon, more wood chips had arrived.
Material from this site may not be republished without the expressed, written permission of the Desert Dispatch.
www.desertdispatch.com /2004/108592288674307.html   (308 words)

  
 Hazardous material a bane to waste recycling facility - The Independent Online - September 14, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The facility was subsequently cleared and the production supervisor and a couple of employees worked to run the affected material on the sorting conveyor into a bin and taken outside.
Russell says the problem is three-pronged: hazardous material showing up in recyclable material not only poses a potentially serious health risk to staff, but it also shuts down the facility and the affected material is transferred to the landfill site.
Russell said processing at the facility could be stopped for as little as 20 minutes while a particular odour dissipates, or in the most recent case, the processing could cease for about three hours.
www.eastnorthumberland.com /news/news2005/September/050914hazardous.html   (597 words)

  
 History Matters Search
Materials include items from the period leading up to prohibition as well as the prohibition era itself, ending with the passage of the 21st amendment in 1933.
Materials in this site were selected from those gathered and organized by the Emma Goldman Papers Project, an ongoing effort that has resulted in a 69-reel microfilm edition of her papers and other publications.
Material is organized into six permanent galleries—History of Alcoholics Anonymous; History of Hazelden Foundation (a Minnesota alcohol treatment facility and publisher incorporated in 1949); History and Politics of Addiction; Notable Books; People; and Addiction in Popular Culture.
historymatters.gmu.edu /search.php?function=find&topradref=1&wwwhist=1   (5180 words)

  
 D.E.F.
The Daniel P. Thomas Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is located adjacent to the Thruway Transfer Station in Yonkers and has a design capacity of 91,000 tons per year, based on an 8-hour work shift and 260 operating days per year.
The Charles Point Resource Recovery Facility is located in Peekskill and was built in response to a federal mandate to close the county’s Croton Point Landfill and local incinerators.
The facility accepts solid waste from all municipalities in the district that has grown to include 36 communities since 1985, representing approximately 90 percent of the county’s population.
www.westchestergov.com /envfacil/SW/SWM_Facilities.htm   (556 words)

  
 D.E.F.
Material Recovery Facility (MRF): The MRF continues to serve as the cornerstone for recycling efforts for the municipalities in the Refuse Disposal District.
The program was designed to divert organic waste from incineration at the Charles Point Resource Recovery Facility, increase current recycling rates and provide economic savings to the county and its communities.
The Recycling Office is updating and creating new handouts and promotional material, as well as participating in special events, exhibits and speaking engagements targeted toward a wide variety of audiences (including schools, colleges, businesses, municipal public meetings, multi-family dwellings, and environmental interest groups).
www.westchestergov.com /envfacil/Annual_Recycling_Report.htm   (1987 words)

  
 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MEETING 50% DIVERSION WITHIN 10 YEARS
Material recovery facilities drop in costs to operate as time goes on.
A MRF is a part of the whole of solid waste management, viewed as one off-set to costs of collection of solid waste." Rick Reeves, Pickens County, North Carolina, Recycling Department.
Biosolids (also known as sewage sludge) is the by-product of waste water processing, and technically may not be considered “solid waste.” The County of Maui pays $1 million to ensure that all of the approximate 19,000 tons of biosolids are diverted from the landfill each year.
www.geocities.com /recyclingtaskforce2002maui   (3996 words)

  
 Shoalhaven Recycling - MRF
ABOUT US An MRF or Material Recovery Facility is a large machine that is specially made to sort through the recyclable rubbish that is regularly collected.
The recyclable rubbish is brought in and dumped near the MRF.
We are available to small to medium councils across NSW and can manage the entire recycling process from kerbside and commercial collection to material recovery.
www.shoalhavenrecycling.com.au /mrf.html   (209 words)

  
 Public Services Department of the City of High Point NC, Municipal Government Website
The Material Recovery Facility provides the citizens of High Point with a material recovery facility that properly processes, separates, packages and ships an estimated 6,000 tons annually of co-mingled recyclables.
The Material Recovery Facility serves the public by providing a means that helps protect the environment by recycling and saving landfill space.
The Material Recovery Facility is located at 5875 Riverdale Rd. The Buy-Back Center is located in the same building.
www.high-point.net /pubsrv/divisions.cfm   (1744 words)

  
 Metro: License application: Mixed solid waste material recovery facility
A material recovery facility receives only recyclable-rich loads of mixed non-putrescible waste for the primary purpose of sorting out and marketing their recoverable components.
A facility that receives only loads of source-separated recyclables (loads that contain no more than incidental quantities of non-recoverable materials) does not require a Metro license.
Because applying for authority to operate a contaminated-soil processing facility within the metro region would occur infrequently, Metro does not have a standard application form for this purpose.
www.metro-region.org /article.cfm?articleid=10115   (219 words)

  
 Dept. of Environmental Quality_340_097
An application for a new transfer station, material recovery facility or composting facility shall include the applicable permit or registration compliance fee for the first year of operation.
When certified scales are required, all solid waste received at the facility for disposal shall be weighed at the facility's scales, except as otherwise approved by the Department in writing.
When certified scales are required, all solid waste received at the facility shall be weighed at the facility's scales, except as otherwise approved by the Department in writing.
arcweb.sos.state.or.us /rules/OARs_300/OAR_340/340_097.html   (3788 words)

  
 MRF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Athens-Clarke Recycling Facility is the first facility of its kind in the state of Georgia.
FCR, Inc. of Charlotte, N.C. owns and operates the Recovered Materials Processing Facility, Athens-Clarke County has agreed to deliver 775 tons of recyclables to the facility each month.
FCR operates a number of recovery facilities across the United States.
www.acc-recycle.org /recycle2.html   (134 words)

  
 Tracy Material Recovery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Tracy Material Recovery Facility and Transfer Station is located roughly five miles south of 11th Street on MacArthur Drive.
The facility receives and processes the solid waste, recyclables, green wastes and wood generated by the City of Tracy, the community of Mountain House and the surrounding portions San Joaquin County.
The MRF receives waste and recyclables from both companies and the general public during these hours.
www.tracymaterialrecovery.com   (90 words)

  
 Welcome to the City of Monterey Park - About the MRF
A Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) is a facility that uses both machines and people to remove and sort recyclables from the waste stream.
The Athens MRF is what is known as a “mixed-waste” MRF and is specifically designed to allow recyclables to be sorted from regular household garbage.
The Athens MRF was permitted to operate in 1997 and currently processes 1,920 tons per day of trash.
www.ci.monterey-park.ca.us /home/index.asp?page=368   (362 words)

  
 Material Recovery Facility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Upon acquisition, the District converted the facility into a general purpose Material Recovery (Recycling) Facility, or MRF.
From 1996 until mid 2001, the MRF was jointly managed by the District and Casella Waste Management.
The MRF is not open to residential recyclers, but does take material from town transfer stations, commercial waste haulers and large commercial generators.
www.rcswd.com /MaterialRecoveryFacility.htm   (239 words)

  
 MRR - Material Resource Recovery - Facility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
MRR's treatment and transfer facility was constructed in 1998 in Cornwall's prestigious new industrial park.
Located just seconds from Highway 401, Canada's busiest expressway, the facility is only minutes from the Canada/U.S.A. border and ideally located between Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa - the Nations Capital.
Negative pressure maintained and monitored throughout entire facility with all air passing through activated carbon systems
www.mrri.com /facility.htm   (100 words)

  
 RECAP - Material Recovery Facility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The material is sorted and sent to reprocessors where it will be made into new products.
This MRF can help recycle paper, plastic bottles, aluminium and steel cans, aerosols, cardboard, juice and squash cartons and textiles.
The MRF in Peterborough has a learning centre and offers a tour of the facility.
www.recap.co.uk /rubbishinformation/materialrecoveryfacility.html   (104 words)

  
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The facility is located on 10 acres in the middle of the 160 acres Florin-Perkins Landfill (inert).
The addition of mechanical processing equipment; Expand the transfer/processing area from 1.5 to 2.5 acres; and Update the Report of Facility to reflect the current operations, such as the construction of the transfer/processing area in north end of the permitted boundary instead of the south as described in the current permit.
Office of Local Assistance staff finds that the Florin-Perkins Landfill, Inc. Material Recovery and Transfer Station is identified in the City’s NDFE and therefore, the proposed permit is in conformance with City’s NDFE.
www.ciwmb.ca.gov /agendas/mtgdocs/2002/11/00009790.doc   (1947 words)

  
 KCAE - Conservation & Environment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Affluenza is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption.
The City of Alexandria and Arlington County co-own Waste-to-Energy Facility at 5301 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria which burns trash to produce electricity since 1988.
The facility can process 975 tons of trash per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year —356,000 tons of trash per year, eliminating approximately 40,000 tractor-trailer trips on I-95 that would be required if the waste were to go to landfill.
www.kcae.org   (491 words)

  
 Recovery Facility Tour - Facilities & Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This facility was added on to the existing Waste Transfer Station and now allows the campus to capture recyclable materials that formerly ended up in a landfill.
Second, the value added by baling the material, a step necessary to prepare it for sale in the market, will now be retained by the campus.
Please do not assume that if you throw your can in the trash it will be picked out at the Material Recovery Facility.
www.fs.uiuc.edu /Template5.cfm?page=recyclingtour&IDList=24,143   (440 words)

  
 Material Recovery Facility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A 60,000 square-foot facility, the new Material Recovery Facility will process approximately 400 tons of material per 16-hour day.
It is designed to accept and process materials received from residential and commercial generators by the Lee County Division of Solid Waste and to meet the changing and growing needs of Lee County.
The new facility design will allow the county to increase the type and number of materials currently being recycled.
www.lee-county.com /whatsnew/material_recovery_facility.htm   (110 words)

  
 Recovery Facility Tour - Facilities & Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In addition, the new facility houses a sorting platform and baler.
First, the facility will enable the campus to improve our recycling rate to over 50% of our waste stream, exceeding a State mandated goal of 40%.
As a result, disposal costs will be reduced and extra revenue will be generated from the sale of materials.
www.fs.uiuc.edu /Template5.cfm?page=recyclingtour&IDList=24,143   (440 words)

  
 The Business Resource - The Business Glossary
The activities and material purchased to support activities associated with the operation and repair of any facility, equipment or asset.
In Philips it was used for indirect materials of low value, the Purchases were not recorded and payment made when the credit card bill arrived.
Also known as telesales or inside selling, this involves applications for salespeople who most often work inside the boundaries of the enterprise and with the benefit of continuous LAN or high-speed WAN connections to perform their jobs, they spend a majority of their time using the phone or Web/e-mail.
www.business-resources.net /glossary   (6196 words)

  
 Solid Waste.com News for solid waste professionals
The Raleigh operations located in Wake County consist of a 211-acre landfill, two transfer stations and a material recovery facility.
The 154-acre landfill and material recovery facility located in High Point, North Carolina, service the Winston-Salem and Greensboro market.
The Company's operations consist of seventeen landfills, fifteen transfer stations, two material recovery facilities and twenty collection operations located throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
www.solidwaste.com /content/news/article.asp?docid={7B7982EA-67E3-4D6B-A112-3B4B1B8EB101}&VNETCOOKIE=NO   (208 words)

  
 DRLP: Material Recovery Facility Project
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention (ODNR-DRLP) developed the Pilot Material Recovery Facility (MRF) Grant Project project to provide grants for analyzing MRF operations and implementing capital improvements of specific recommendations at selected MRFs.
These grants were in response to a significant number of Ohio’s 25 public and nine non-profit MRFs that are 10 to 20 years old.
During those years, growth in recycling sometimes resulted in sporadic facility expansions by adding a piece of equipment here, an annex there, or squeezing a loading dock in somewhere else.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /recycling/research/mrfproject   (234 words)

  
 Metro: Franchise application: Combined transfer station and material recovery facility
Download this form to apply for authority to operate a new combined transfer station and material recovery facility.
Transfer stations also typically perform material recovery on recyclable-rich loads of non-putrescible waste.
Because applying for authority to operate waste-to-energy facility within the metro region would occur infrequently, Metro does not have a standard application form for this purpose.
www.metro-region.org /article.cfm?articleid=10112   (250 words)

  
 Halifax Regional Municipality
The Halifax Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is a two stream system (fiber and containers) that processes 20 000 tonnes on an annual basis.
The Halifax MRF is operated by Miller Waste Systems on behalf of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM); Miller Waste is responsible for all operations including marketing of the end product.
The Dartmouth composting facility processes 25 000 tonnes of organic waste from both residential and Industrial/Commercial/Institutional (ICI) sources.
www.millergroup.ca /waste/regions/halifax   (257 words)

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