MRF Upgrades Technology To Refine Fiber Sorting
Oct 12, 2023
Murphy Road Recycling’s All American MRF recently completed $40 million in upgrades that focused on improved worker safety and fiber recovery. | Courtesy of Van Dyk
The consumer recyclables stream has changed a lot in the last two decades, and a Connecticut MRF recently invested $40 million in an upgrade focused on more granular fiber recovery and worker safety.
Frank M. Antonacci, chief operating officer of Murphy Road Recycling, told Resource Recycling that the Enfield, Conn. MRF’s original system was one of the first single-stream systems in the area when it was installed in 2005.
“It was good at handling the material we got back then, at that volume,” Antonacci said, but as the business grew and technology changes, upgrades were needed.
Read the full article on the Resource Recycling website.
The Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC) announced Murphy Road Recycling as a recipient of a gold-level certification for its All American material recovery facility (MRF) in Berlin, Connecticut. The approximately $40 million single-stream MRF started operations in 2022 and features a state-of-the-art processing system that includes optical sorters, artificial intelligence, and robotics supplied by Van Dyk Recycling Solutions. The All American MRF also uses glass cleaning equipment including a glass breaker, vibrating table screen, secondary fines screen, and vacuum system. The MRF sends its clean glass to processors that convert the material into cullet used for manufacturing glass containers, fine powders that are used in fiberglass insulation, and ground glass used as pozzolan (a cement binder). Read the full article on wasteadvantagemag.com.
Glass Recycling Coalition awards gold certification to the Berlin, Connecticut facility.